United States v. Garnet Dwight Everroad

*404HEANEY, Circuit Judge.

Defendant Garnet Dwight Everroad appeals from his convictions in a jury trial for possessing cocaine with the intent to distribute it, and for conspiring to distribute cocaine and marijuana. Because we find that the law enforcement officials involved here lacked probable cause to arrest Ever-road, we reverse his convictions.

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PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

In the early afternoon of August 17,1981, Garnet Everroad was arrested in Marshall-town, Iowa, and subsequently charged as a codefendant in a multiple count indictment filed in the United States District Court for the Southern…