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164503P.pdf 02/26/2018 United States v. Ronald Allen Class
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 16-4503
U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - St. Paul
[PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Gruender and Benton, Circuit Judges]
Criminal Case - suppression. District court did not clearly err in
concluding the unconstitutional seizure and detention of defendant was not
meaningfully connected to the plain-view seizure of the bag of
methamphetamine, and properly rejected as unlikely speculation that but
for the detention, the officer would not have seen the inside of the
engine compartment. The motion to suppress was properly denied.