071384P.pdf   04/28/2010  United States  v.  Joseph Grooms
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  07-1384
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City   
   [PUBLISHED] [Bye, Author, with Bowman and Smith, Circuit Judges]
   Criminal case - criminal law. For the court's prior opinion in the case,
   see United States v. Grooms, 506 F.3d 1088 (8th Cir. 2007), reversed and
   remanded for reconsideration in light of Arizona v. Gant in Grooms v.
   United States 129 S.Ct. 1981 (2009). Probable cause existed to search
   defendant's vehicle because the officers believed that the vehicle
   contained evidence related to a threat to commit a felonious act with a
   firearm; because the officers confined their search to areas of the vehicle
   where a gun could be found, the search fits comfortably within the 
   automobile exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement.
  
071384P.pdf   11/06/2007  United States  v.  Joseph Grooms
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  07-1384
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City   
   [PUBLISHED] [Bye, Author, with Bowman and Smith, Circuit Judges]
   Criminal case - criminal law. Defendant remained a recent occupant of
   his vehicle, even though he had been out of the vehicle for eight minutes,
   and the police had the right to search the vehicle incident to defendant's
   arrest.