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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.