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153579P.pdf 05/31/2016 United States v. Donnell Hopkins
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 15-3579
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Cedar Rapids
[PUBLISHED] [Murphy, Author, with Wollman and Beam, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law. Drug dog sniff at defendant's front door
violated Florida v. Jardines, 133 S. Ct. 1409 (2013); however, the good
faith exception set out in U.S. v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897 (1984) applied and
the district court did not err in denying defendant's motion to suppress
the evidence found during the search of his apartment; officers had
reasonable suspicion to stop defendant outside the apartment and conduct a
pat down search, and the gun and drugs found on his person were
admissible; the district court made no use of the PSR's statements
concerning gang membership and Rule 32 did not require the statements to
be stricken.