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United States v. Serrano-Acevedo

Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Decided June 13, 2018No. 16-2009PPublishedCited by 6 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

We address in this case important questions of Fourth Amendment protections in a person's home. As we did in United States v. Delgado-Pérez , 867 F.3d 244 (1st Cir. 2017), we conclude that the government overstepped the mark and that a motion to suppress the fruits of a warrantless search of a defendant's home in Puerto Rico should have been granted.

Virgilio Diaz-Jimenez ("Diaz") and Hector Serrano-Acevedo ("Serrano"), after a joint trial, were found guilty of armed bank robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113 , and possession of a firearm during and in relation to a…

2Cases cited15 opinions

  1. Brown v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
  2. Maryland v. BuieSupreme Court of the United States · 1990
  3. Milton v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
  4. New York v. HarrisSupreme Court of the United States · 1990
  5. United States v. CasasCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2004

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3Cited by6 opinions

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