United States v. Richard Mathias

BYE, Circuit Judge.

Richard Westmoreland Mathias was indicted with one count of conspiracy to manufacture marijuana in violation of'21 U.S.C. §§ 841(b)(1)(B), 846. He pleaded guilty, conditioned on his right to challenge the district court’s 1 denial of his motion to suppress evidence arising from Mount Pleasant, Iowa, Police Officer Lyle Murray’s observation of marijuana plants growing in Mathias’s back yard. Mathias now appeals. We affirm.

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On May 10, 2011, Officer Murray received information from an anonymous source that someone was growing marijuana plants in a back yard on the 300 block of…