Legal Opinion
United States v. Jennings
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 15, 2008No. 07-1818PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SYKES, Circuit Judge.
Moments before heavily armed police began to execute a nighttime search warrant at an apartment in South Bend, Indiana, Keith Jennings drove his car into a parking spot next to the targeted apartment. This area was inside the security perimeter that police had established for the search, so two officers boxed him in with their cars and approached with guns drawn. In plain view through Jennings’s window, the officers saw a plastic bag containing what turned out to be 13 grams of crack cocaine.
Jennings was charged with possessing the crack with intent to distribute, see 21…
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