United States v. Bagley

BACHARACH, Circuit Judge.

This appeal involves a protective sweep ■ of a house incident to the arrest of one of its occupants, Mr.'Stephen -Bagley. Our precedents limit protective sweeps to the area immediately adjacent to the place of arrest in the absence of specific, articula-ble information that a dangerous person remains in the house. In this ease, law enforcement officials conducted a protective sweep of the entire house without any information suggesting that someone else remained inside.

The protective sweep yielded items that allowed law enforcement officials to obtain a search warrant…