U.S. v. Patterson, 77-1041
| Decision Date | 20 May 1977 |
| Docket Number | No. 77-1041,77-1041 |
| Citation | 554 F.2d 852 |
| Parties | UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Clora Ann PATTERSON, Appellant. |
| Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Eighth Circuit |
Daniel P. Reardon, Jr., St. Louis, Mo., on brief, for appellant.
Barry A. Short, U. S. Atty., and Richard A. Heidenry, Asst. U. S. Atty., St. Louis, Mo., on brief, for appellee.
Before HEANEY, ROSS and HENLEY, Circuit Judges.
Clora Ann Patterson stands convicted of attempted bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(d). The sole question presented on this appeal is whether the admission of a .22 caliber revolver and Patterson's beige vinyl jacket violated the appellant's fourth amendment rights. We find that the revolver and jacket were properly admitted and affirm the conviction.
On September 27, 1976, a black female entered the Roosevelt Federal Savings and Loan Association in Jennings, Missouri and, at gun point, presented the teller with a paper bag and note which read: After the teller triggered an alarm, the would-be robber exited the bank. At trial, two government witnesses who observed the incident identified Ms. Patterson as the person who attempted to rob the savings and loan association.
The revolver and jacket were seized under the following circumstances. On the evening of the robbery, the state police received a tip from an anonymous informant that Ms. Patterson was the person who attempted the robbery. The informant identified Ms. Patterson's place of residence in Berkeley, Missouri. The state police and Agent Symonds of the FBI went to the appellant's residence the next morning. The officers knocked on the door and encountered William Patterson, the appellant's husband. The officers displayed a bank surveillance photo of the robber to Mr. Patterson and Agent Symonds requested to talk to Ms. Patterson about the attempted robbery. Mr. Patterson stated that his wife was not home, but he agreed to allow the officers to come in and discuss the incident. One of the state detectives then asked Mr. Patterson whether there were any firearms in the house. Patterson admitted he had a gun and led the officers to a closet in a rear bedroom where he pointed out the .22 caliber revolver which was seized. Contemporaneously, one of the detectives saw a beige vinyl jacket on the other side of the closet. The surveillance photo indicated that the jacket in the closet was identical to the jacket worn by the attempted robber. 1 Mr. Patterson was requested to open the other side of the closet, which he did, and the jacket was seized. Ms. Patterson was arrested approximately two hours later when she came home.
In United States v. Matlock, 415 U.S. 164, 170, 94 S.Ct. 988, 993, 39 L.Ed.2d 242 (1974), the Supreme Court stated:
* * * (T)he consent of one who possesses common authority over premises or effects is valid as against the absent, nonconsenting person with whom that authority is shared.
Cf. United States v. Kelly, 551 F.2d 760 at 764 (8th Cir. 1977). The consent must be "voluntary" and the prosecution has the burden of proving...
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