United States v. Robert Fowler

NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS APR 28 2023

MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK

U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 22-50002

Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No. 2:20-cr-00498-SB-AB-2 v.

ROBERT EUGENE FOWLER, MEMORANDUM*

Defendant-Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Stanley Blumenfeld, Jr., District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted March 10, 2023 Pasadena, California

Before: KLEINFELD, WATFORD, and COLLINS, Circuit Judges.

Robert Fowler appeals from the district court’s order denying his motion to

suppress evidence of drug trafficking seized from his Toyota Camry. The district

court concluded that the good-faith exception to the Fourth Amendment’s

exclusionary rule applied. Finding no error, we affirm.

The good-faith exception provides an exemption from the exclusionary rule

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. when “an officer acting with objective good faith has…