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153237P.pdf 12/23/2016 United States v. Lemarcus Wright
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 15-3237
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Davenport
[PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Melloy and Shepherd, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law. Defendant lacked standing to challenge the
police officers' entry into the parking lot of an apartment complex as he
had no reasonable expectation of privacy in the area as he did not own or
live at the property; officer's action in shining a spotlight on
defendant's car was not a seizure; once an officer detected the smell of
marijuana on defendant's person, the officer had probable cause to arrest
him and, a fortiori, reasonable suspicion to detain him for further
investigation; smell of burnt marijuana and the presence of a marijuana
blunt in plain view in the vehicle were sufficient to justify a search for
drugs; seizure of a key to the car from defendant's pocket was a lawful
search incident to arrest.