Legal Opinion
James White v. Tammie Stanley
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 11, 2014No. 13-2131PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
James White was arrested in his home in March of 2010 for obstructing a peace officer. Two deputy sheriffs came to White’s house without a warrant looking for his live-in girlfriend, Nancy Hille, on suspicion that she had stolen a license-plate registration sticker. White refused to let them in and tried to slam the door, at which point one of the deputies jammed her foot in the door and the deputies entered the house. The deputies took White to the ground. The deputies claim that this entry was justified because they smelled burning marijuana when they were outside the…
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