United States v. Joe John Cornejo, Tony Edward Estrada, Magdalena Reyes

Appellants were convicted of armed bank robbery ( 18 U.S.C. §§ 2113 (a), (d)). All appellants claim the trial court erred in denying their motion to suppress. Appellant Estrada also challenges the admission of post-arrest statements of appellant Cornejo.

The American National Bank in Bakersfield, California, was robbed on June 2, 1977. Shortly after the robbery several police officers proceeded to apartment B-36 of the nearby J-L-J apartment complex in search of the suspects on the basis of information furnished by several persons including two witnesses to the robbery. The les see of the apartment, Mary Padilla, answered the door, admitted the officers, and consented to a search of the entire apartment. Appellants were found in a rear bedroom and arrested. Certain items were seized that were later admitted at the trial. Appellant Cornejo made several statements which were also admitted at trial. After appellant Reyes arrived at the police station, her purse, seized at the time of the arrest, was searched and a mutilated money list from the bank was discovered.

Appellants claim the district court erred in finding that the police entered and searched the apartment pursuant to…