United States v. Harvey Robinson

WOOD, Circuit Judge.

Harvey Robinson was asleep on his grandmother’s living room sofa when Chicago police officers conducted an early-morning search of her apartment. They were looking for evidence that Robinson was selling marijuana from the premises. After a thorough search, police officers found less than two grams of marijuana, but they also recovered a loaded revolver lying in a laundry basket by the front door. According to police officers, Robinson twice admitted — at the time of the gun’s discovery and during a later station-house interrogation — that the revolver was his; Robinson…