Legal Opinion
United States v. Wells
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 8, 2011No. 10-2638PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.
After Michael Joe Wells was indicted for conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, he moved to suppress evidence obtained during two searches of an outbuilding behind his house. The district court 2 granted his motion, and the government appeals. See 18 U.S.C. § 3731. We affirm.
I
In the early morning hours of May 20, 2009, Officer Shane Bates of the Poplar Bluff, Missouri police department received a tip from a confidential informant that Wells was manufacturing methamphetamine in an outbuilding behind his house. Bates drove past Wells’s house a few times, but noticed…
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