United States v. Smith

OPINION

SUTTON, Circuit Judge.

Rickey Smith contends that the district court should have suppressed evidence that officers discovered in his residence while he was serving the last years of a 15-to-30-year sentence as a prisoner in a community residential home, which is to say he was living in a private home while connected to an electronic-monitoring device that ensured he never left the walls of the home without permission. Because the search was reasonable in view of Smith’s continuing prisoner status and in view of his knowledge that officers could search his living quarters as freely as…