Legal Opinion
United States v. Sims
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 22, 2009No. 08-1348PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The defendant, convicted of illegal possession of a gun and sentenced to 30 months in prison, challenges the constitutionality of the search that discovered the gun. He argues that the warrant that authorized it failed to specify with particularity the things the searchers were looking for and therefore violated the Fourth Amendment. He is right that there was a violation but wrong that it invalidates his conviction.
Local police, having reason to believe that there was stolen property in a house (or its garage, or vehicles on the property) occupied by the defendant,…
2Cases cited22 opinions
- Coolidge v. New HampshireSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Payton v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Whren v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1996
- Johnson v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
- United States v. ChadwickSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
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3Cited by29 opinions
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