United States v. Dennis Dwayne Buckner

WELLFORD, Circuit Judge.

The defendant appeals his conviction by a jury in the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky on bank robbery charges, he contends that his war-rantless arrest was invalid, and that evidence seized at the time of the arrest therefore should have been suppressed.

The issues raised in this appeal are whether an arrest warrant and/or search warrant was required to arrest the defend ant at his mother’s home, and whether, if one was required, the failure to obtain one can be justified by the existence of exigent circumstances.

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The defendant was…