Brown
United States v. Brown
Opinion
Lead Opinion
MEMORANDUM *
The United States appeals the order of the district court granting a motion to suppress filed by Appellee Gerald Douglas Brown. We review the district court’s determination of reasonable suspicion de novo. United States v. Colin, 314 F.3d 439, 442 (9th Cir.2002). We have jurisdiction pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3731 , and we reverse.
*573 In light of his training, experience, and the undisputed information before him on August 10, 2007 1 , Deputy Feldman reasonably concluded that Brown’s registration could be expired and the up-to-date registration stickers on the back of Brown’s vehicle could be fraudulent. See United States v. Arvizu, 534 U.S. 266, 273 , 122 S.Ct. 744 , 151 L.Ed.2d 740 (2002) (holding that officers may “draw on their own experience and specialized training to make inferences from and deductions about the cumulative information available to them that ‘might well elude an untrained person’ ” (quoting United States v. Cortez, 449 U.S. 411, 418 , 101 S.Ct. 690 , 66 L.Ed.2d 621 (1981))). Accordingly, the district court erred in concluding that reasonable suspicion for the stop did not exist. See United States v. Miguel, 368 F.3d 1150, 1153 (9th Cir.2004)…