United States v. Alexander Lisznyai

KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:

This appeal requires application of the teachings of Coolidge v. New Hampshire, 403 U.S. 443, 91 S.Ct. 2022, 29 L.Ed.2d 564 (1971), to a warrantless seizure by Federal narcotics agents of lab- ; oratory equipment in “plain view” at the time they arrested Alexander Lisznyai for violation of the narcotics laws. Lisznyai, found guilty of manufacturing a stimulant drug in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 331 (q), 1 argues that because the agents had seen the equipment earlier in the day, the plain view of the equipment was not “inadvertent” within the meaning of Coolidge v. New…