Legal Opinion
United States v. Mark James Knights Steven Simoneau
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 3, 2000No. 99-10538PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FERNANDEZ, Circuit Judge:
The United States appeals from an order which suppressed evidence seized from the home of Mark James Knights in a warrantless search conducted by members of the Sheriffs Department of Napa County, California. It claims that the evidence was properly seized during a probation search. The district court disagreed; so do we. We affirm.
BACKGROUND
From 1996 on, Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s facilities in Napa County had been subjected to vandalism over 30 times. Those' incidents included short circuits caused by throwing chains onto transformers, damaging of gas power…
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