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222965P.pdf 07/18/2023 United States v. Scott Nielsen
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 22-2965
U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska - Omaha
[PUBLISHED] [Shepherd, Author, with Stras and Kobes, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law. The search of defendant's vehicle following
his arrest on an active warrant was a reasonable and lawful inventory
search, and the drugs found were admissible; the officer was following the
City's inventory search policy when he opened a binocular case and found
the drugs and the action of opening the case was permissible.