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203687P.pdf 08/15/2022 United States v. Angela Garges
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 20-3687
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Western
[PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Wollman and Kobes, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law. A protective sweep of defendant's hotel room
was justified as an inspection of spaces immediately adjoining the place
of her companion's arrest from which an attack could be immediately
launched; that officers observed evidence of unlawful drug activity in
plain view while conducting the sweep did not violate defendant's Fourth
Amendment rights.