United States v. David Payne

RALPH B. GUY, JR., Circuit Judge.

Defendant David G. Payne appeals from the denial of his motion to suppress evidence following his conditional plea of guilty to one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). Payne moved to suppress the firearm and drugs seized during a warrantless search of the residence he shared with Erin Ratleff, who was on post-release control at the time. .After an evi-dentiary hearing, the district court found the search was reasonable under the Fourth Amendment’s totality-of-the-circumstances standard articulated in Knights…