United States v. Robert S. Wylie

SPOTTSWOOD W. ROBINSON, III, Circuit Judge:

This appeal, from a conviction of robbery, 1 challenges the validity of appellant’s in-home arrest and the incidental seizure of evidence subsequently introduced at his trial. The evidence in question was money allegedly taken during the robbery and a shirt allegedly worn by the party who perpetrated it. Illegality of the seizure is urged on grounds that the arrest was unlawful for noncompliance with 18 U.S.C. § 3109, 2 and that the seizure followed a search too broad in scope to satisfy constitutional demands. Concluding that neither the arrest nor…