Legal Opinion
United States v. James Ray Mendoza
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided April 2, 2002No. 00-3631PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GAITAN, District Judge.
This case presents the issues of whether a resident of a duplex possesses a legitimate privacy interest in the common entry vestibule, and whether law enforcement agents, who possess a warrant and announce their presence and purpose, must knock when the door to the dwelling has been removed from its hinges. Appellant, the United States, appeals from the District Court ruling which suppressed the evidence retrieved from James Mendoza’s home on the grounds that the search was unreasonable.
Several days prior to June .5, 2000, the Minneapolis Police Department received a…
2Cases cited20 opinions
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- Miller v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1958
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3Cited by41 opinions
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