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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.