Michael Patrick Doran v. United States

Appellant was convicted of bank robbery ( 18 U.S.C. § 2113 (a)). Prior to trial, he made a motion to suppress evidence of incriminating statements and a mask, gun, and the stolen money, the location of which he had divulged to agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The sole specification of error is whether the trial court erred in denying the motion to suppress.

Following the hearing on the motion to suppress, the court made and filed its findings of fact, which are not disputed. Insofar as relevant to this appeal, the findings are set forth below.

On July 24, 1968, at approximately 2:25 p. m. John A. Keefe and Byron M. Taylor, Special Agents for the Naval Investigative Services Office, Office of Naval Intelligence, both civilians, were advised that there had been a bank robbery at Camp Pendleton. They proceeded to the area of the bank that had been robbed, arriving there at approximately 3:20 p. m. At that time they contacted Jim Scanlon, Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which investigative agency had taken jurisdiction in the matter.

Scanlon directed Taylor and Keefe to check out an incident where a gunnery sergeant had reported suspicious…