United States v. James William Giannetta

BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the district court revoking defendant-appellant James Giannetta’s probation. 717 F.Supp. 926. Giannetta raises a number of fourth amendment challenges regarding two searches of his residence that were performed by his probation officer and that uncovered much of the evidence used to support the revocation. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

I. BACKGROUND

In December, 1986 and March, 1987, Gi-annetta pled guilty to charges of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute approximately two kilograms of cocaine and conspiracy…