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No. 12-4138
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
South Carolina, at Charleston. David C. Norton, District Judge.
(2:10-cr-00562-DCN-1)
Submitted:
November 1, 2012
Decided:
PER CURIAM:
Willie
indictment with:
18
U.S.C.
Mitchell
was
charged
in
three-count
922(g)(1)
(2006)
(Count
1);
(2)
possession
with
the
district
court
denied
both
Following separate
motions.
Mitchell
Mitchell
increased
punishment
offenses
identified
sentenced
Mitchell
in
to
based
the
on
three
agreement.
total
of
188
prior
The
months
felony
district
drug
court
imprisonment.
as
follows.
In
December
2009,
North
Charleston
Police
conducted
the
positive
search
residence
for
cocaine
and
and
of
found
the
trash
several
marijuana.
can
items
search
at
the
that
curb
tested
warrant
was
the
Kenyatta
warrant
Thompson,
residence.
Detectives
quantity
both
of
was
also
cocaine
and
and
executed,
five
recovered
crack,
detectives
found
juveniles
inside
handgun,
stolen
digital
scale,
the
a
pyrex
residue,
Mitchells name.
large
sum
of
cash,
and
documents
bearing
Foster
stated that there was a garage in the back yard and that there
was a separate trash can alongside that building, inside the
fence.
warrant, Foster checked the property tax records for 2321 Kent
Avenue
to
confirm
address.
Along
that
with
the
garage
did
not
the
items
that
have
tested
different
positive
for
argued
that
the
trash
can
pulled
by
the
at
nearby
bus
stop,
among
others.
According
to
was
unnecessary.
Mitchells
reliance
on
United
In
Tate, the evidence suggested that the officer applying for the
search warrant intentionally omitted facts about the location of
the trash because the trash was not actually abandoned (i.e.,
placed at the curb, as in the instant case) but was located
4
Tate
made
substantial
preliminary
that
[the
the
officers
By contrast,
intentionally
or
withheld
nor
[Fed.
R.
Crim.
P.
41]
See Groh v.
the
executing
Mitchell
also
filed
motion
to
suppress
his
statements made at the time of his arrest on the ground that the
statements were not made freely and voluntarily.
Specifically,
would
take
Thompsons
children
from
her,
possibly
permanently.
A
statement
will
be
deemed
involuntary
if
the
accuseds will has been overborne or his capacity for selfdetermination critically impaired.
835 F.2d 1067, 1071 (4th Cir. 1987) (internal quotation marks
and
citation
necessary
omitted).
predicate
to
[C]oercive
the
finding
police
that
activity
confession
is
is
a
not
intelligence
of
the
accused,
the
length
and
conditions
Id.
of
Mitchell
graduate,
and
was
had
thirty-five
lengthy
years
criminal
old,
history
high
(his
school
criminal
predicament
are
not
the
type
of
presence
of
drugs,
firearms,
and
that
United States v.
coercion
Indeed, given
evidence
of
drug
In
affirm
the
district
courts
judgment.
This
We
court
may
move
in
this
court
7
at
that
time
for
leave
to
Finally, we dispense
with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are
adequately
presented
in
the
materials
before
the
court
and