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131176P.pdf 09/03/2015 United States v. Dennys Rodriguez
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 13-1176
U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska - Omaha
[PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Colloton and Gruender, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law. On remand from the Supreme Court. Rodriguez
v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 1609 (2015). For this court's prior opinion in
the matter, see United States v. Rodriguez, 741 F.3d 905 (8th Cir. 2014).
The Supreme Court granted certiorari in this case to decide whether police
routinely may extend an otherwise-completed traffic stop, absent
reasonable suspicion, in order to conduct a dog sniff and held that a
police stop exceeding the time needed to handle the matter for which the
stop was made violated the Constitution's shield against unreasonable
seizures; here, the officers acted in good faith reliance on existing
Circuit precedent and the search, which was made in objectively reasonable
reliance on binding circuit precedent, was not subject to the exclusionary
rule; as a result, the evidence seized was admissible, and defendant's
conviction is affirmed.
131176P.pdf 01/31/2014 United States v. Dennys Rodriguez
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 13-1176
U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska - Omaha
[PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Colloton and Gruender, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law. The district court did not err in denying
defendant's motion to suppress drugs seized from his car, as a brief
seven- or eight-minute delay in deploying a drug dog was a de minimus
intrusion on defendant's personal liberty and did not unreasonably prolong
the traffic stop.