United States v. Alphonso Nerber Eduardo Alvarez Alberto Betancourt Ramon Betancourt-Rodriguez
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by Judge JAMES R. BROWNING; Dissent by Judge GOULD.
JAMES R. BROWNING, Circuit Judge:
The government appeals an order of the district court suppressing evidence derived from video surveillance of a hotel room. For the reasons stated below, we affirm.
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On December 24, 1998, defendants Ner-ber and Betancourt-Rodriguez went to La Quinta Inn in Seattle to conduct a narcotics transaction with confidential informants. The informants brought defendants to Room 303. The FBI and the King County Police had rented the room for the operation and installed a hidden video camera without first…
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