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101295P.pdf 11/05/2010 United States v. Harold Webster
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 10-1295
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Des Moines
[PUBLISHED] [Bye, Author, with Beam and Smith, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - criminal law. Officers had probable cause to arrest
defendant after he arrived to make a third controlled sale and the
informant gave officers a pre-arranged sign that defendant had the drugs;
warrantless search of defendant's truck did not violate Gant as the
officers had reasonable cause to believe that the truck contained evidence
of the offense; there was no evidence that the police had destroyed the
evidence in the case in bad faith, and the destruction of the drugs did not
require dismissal.