Legal Opinion
United States v. Steven Peter Ojeda
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided January 3, 2002No. 01-10020PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Per curiam
In this criminal prosecution for drugs, the government appeals the suppression of evidence of a methamphetamine laboratory seized from a warrantless search of a garage on residential property. We hold that the search was lawful under the exigent circumstances exception to the fourth amendment’s warrant requirement and REVERSE.
The police believed that methamphetamine production was occurring at defendant-appellee Steven Peter Ojeda’s residential property. The police obtained a search warrant describing the area to be searched as
the premises located and described as 2417 Merritt Ave., San…
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