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213816P.pdf 11/21/2022 United States v. Eric Griggs
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 21-3816
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Eastern
[PUBLISHED] [Melloy, Author, with Gruender and Erickson, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law and Sentencing. Police officers' use of a
seized phone to contact defendant and set up a drug deal with defendant
did not violate the Wiretap Act; officers had probable cause to approach
defendant's car; inaccurate statement in the search warrant application
did not require suppression of the evidence when the rest of the
information provided established probable cause; even assuming certain
testimony the government introduced was false, there was no reasonable
likelihood it affected the verdict; challenge to jury instructions
rejected;; evidentiary arguments rejected; no error in imposing an
enhancement under Guidelines Sec. 3C1.1 for obstruction of justice;
sentence was not substantively unreasonable.