122866P.pdf   06/06/2013  United States  v.  Mario Smith
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  12-2866
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Melloy, Author, with Bye, Circuit Judge, and Kopf,
   District Judge]
   Criminal case - Criminal law. Officers had probable cause to arrest
   defendant based on their investigation of his fraud scheme and his actions
   at the time of his arrest; even assuming some of the evidence that led to
   that conclusion was the fruit of an illegal search in Los Angeles, the
   connection between the Los Angeles incident and the current
   investigation was sufficiently attenuated so as to purge the later
   investigation of any taint from the original illegality; seizure of
   defendant's bag was justified to preserve evidence of the offense which
   might be found in the computer in the bag; it was reasonable for agents to
   perform an inventory search of the bag and to place electronics found in
   the bad in a Faraday bag to protect them and prevent them from being
   remotely swiped; the district court did not err in rejecting a Franks
   challenge to the warrant application submitted for the warrant to search
   defendant's bag and its contents.