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202086P.pdf 07/29/2021 United States v. Jeremy Lillich
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 20-2086
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Western
[PUBLISHED] [Shepherd, Author, with Erickson and Kobes, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law. Considering the totality of the
circumstances, the police officers' conduct would not have communicated to
a reasonable person that he was not free to decline the officers' requests
or otherwise terminate the encounter, and defendant's initial encounter
with police at a car wash was consensual and did not violate defendant's
Fourth Amendment rights; nor did the officers violate defendant's Fifth
Amendment rights during the first encounter, and defendant's statements
were admissible; once police seized drugs from the driver of defendant's
car, they had reasonable suspicion to seize the car to await a drug dog
sniff, and the drug dog's alert gave officers probable cause to search the
car and seize the drugs and cell phone they found.