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041315P.pdf   02/16/2005  USA  v.  Bobby R Leveringston
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  04-1315
   Western District of Missouri   
   Criminal case - criminal law. Conditional guilty plea entered subject 
   to challenge to warrantless search of hotel suite. Government's 
   justification based on independent source doctrine is rejected, but initial 
   warrantless entry of hotel suite was justified by exigent circumstances. 
   Hotel manager informed officers of suspicious activity, officer heard pots 
   and pans slamming, dishes breaking, water and disposal running, and 
   observed occupant leaving suite from second-story window. Exigency 
   based on possibility of destruction of evidence from other possible 
   occupant and need to investigate whether any other occupant may have 
   been injured. [PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Heaney and 
   Hansen, Circuit Judge]