Legal Opinion
United States v. Kattaria
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided January 30, 2009No. 06-3903PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Per curiam
A state court search warrant authorized aerial use of a thermal imaging device to detect excess heat emanating from a home owned by Mohammed Kattaria. When the thermal imaging results were consistent with an indoor marijuana grow operation, police obtained and executed three warrants to enter and search homes owned by Kattaria. The searches uncovered 548 marijuana plants, bags of harvested marijuana, and other incriminating evidence. Kattaria was charged in a nine-count superseding indictment. After the district court1 denied motions to suppress and for a hearing under Franks v. Delaware, 438…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- Illinois v. GatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
- United States v. LeonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Franks v. DelawareSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Kyllo v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 2001
- United States v. Lawrence D. Lamorie Patricia L. LamorieCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1996
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- United States v. BryantCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2009
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