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201533P.pdf 06/29/2021 United States v. Shaun Short
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 20-1533
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Central
[PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Grasz and Kobes, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law and Sentencing. Even though defendant's
vehicle was temporarily immobilized by a flat tire, the officers
indisputably had probable cause to search the car, and an easily repaired
flat tire did not cause the vehicle to lose its inherent mobility; as a
result, the automobile exception applied, and the district court properly
denied defendant's motion to suppress evidence seized from the vehicle;
the district court did not err in refusing to hold a Franks hearing based
on defendant's allegations that the detective who completed the search
warrant application omitted key information; the district court did not
err in determining that defendant failed to establish the detective
deliberately or recklessly omitted information from the application; the
district court did not impose a substantively unreasonable sentence when
it imposed an upward variance based on the serious nature of the
underlying events.