191966P.pdf   01/04/2021  United States  v.  Gregory Stephen
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  19-1966
   U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Cedar Rapids   
   [PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Colloton and Grasz, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. A private party who 
   discovered a hidden camera while performing repair work on defendant's 
   home was not a government agent when he took the device, and his seizure 
   and search of the device were not subject to the Fourth Amendment; by 
   taking the device from the private party, the police chief did not 
   meaningfully interfere with defendant's possessory interest in it because 
   the private party had already taken it from him; in any event, the chief 
   had probable cause to believe that the device contained child pornography 
   and that exigent circumstances justified seizing it without obtaining a 
   warrant; the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigations did not exceed the 
   scope of the search warrant when it viewed the device's content; 
   defendant's 180-year sentence was not substantively unreasonable.