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211104P.pdf 12/23/2021 United States v. Curtis Smith
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 21-1104
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Eastern
[PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Smith, Chief Judge, and Benton, Circuit
Judge]
Criminal case - Criminal law. Information supplied in the affidavit in
support of the search warrant application was not stale and provided a
substantial basis for finding probable cause to search defendant's motel
room for firearms; the district court did not not err in denying
defendant's request for a Franks hearing because even if the warrant
application was supplemented by the facts defendant contends were
improperly omitted from the affidavit, a judge could reasonably conclude
probable cause existed; even if the officers' entry into the room was not
consensual, the challenged evidence was admissible under the inevitable
discovery rule; defendant knowingly and intelligently waived his Miranda
rights; challenged to witness's identification of defendant from a mug
shot rejected as there was not a very substantial likelihood of
irreparable misidentification given the witness was staying in an adjacent
room and had spoken with defendant about a gun shot that came into her
room from his.