U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
United States v. Claude Coleman
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- Type
- Opinion
- Author
- Jeffrey S. Sutton
- Filed
- Aug. 18, 2025
- Case
- United States v. Claude Coleman
- Case status
- Decided
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NOT RECOMMENDED FOR PUBLICATION File Name: 25a0403n.06 Case No. 23-3924 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT FILED ) Aug 18, 2025 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, KELLY L. STEPHENS, Clerk ) Plaintiff-Appellee, ) ) ON APPEAL FROM THE UNITED v. ) STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR ) THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CLAUDE COLEMAN, ) OHIO Defendant-Appellant. ) ) OPINION Before: SUTTON, Chief Judge; STRANCH and RITZ, Circuit Judges. SUTTON, Chief Judge. Late on a May evening in Cleveland, officers approached a man drinking alcohol on a sidewalk in violation of the city’s open container law. He and one other man were directly next to a running car with two occupants. Several officers approached the four individuals and engaged with them. At the same time, Officer Friedrich Kaufmann peered into the window of the car and saw marijuana in an open backpack on the backseat. Officers arrested the driver, Claude Coleman, and discovered a firearm along with several types of drugs. Coleman argues that the district court should have suppressed the evidence found in the car because the police wrongfully seized him under the Fourth Amendment. He also challenges various evidentiary decisions made at trial …
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