Legal Opinion
United States v. David L. Harper, United States of America v. Adrian A. Harper
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided March 25, 1991No. 89-10515, 89-10516PublishedCited by 99 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge:
There’s a simple way for the police to avoid many complex search and seizure problems: Get a search warrant. Had they obtained a search warrant in this case — as they could well have — there would have been no motion to suppress, no hearing, no objection at trial and no thorny issues for us to resolve on appeal. But they didn’t. So once again we consume a few pages of the Federal Reporter analyzing the circumstances under which the police may enter a home without a search warrant.
Facts
The police thought David Harper was up to no good; they suspected he was…
2Cases cited13 opinions
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- Steagald v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
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