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· 10/25/1991

United States v. Alfredo Capote-Capote and Gustavo Perdomo Rodriguez

Citations

  • 946 F.2d 1100
  • 1991 U.S. App. LEXIS 25065
  • 1991 WL 214719

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • recognizing that although we begin with the principle that a warrantless entry into a home is presumptively unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment, an exception to the warrant requirement is the presence of exigent circumstances
  • “Weapons in the home may facilitate a drug crime because the defendants could use the guns to protect the drugs”.
  • machine gun found with a loaded clip beside it in a closed drawer of a chest on the second floor of an apartment facilitated a drug transaction
  • machine gun found with a loaded clip beside it in a closed drawer of a chest on the second floor of an apartment facilitated a drug transaction
  • machine gun used to protect kilogram of cocaine

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Judges: Politz, Higginbotham, Prado

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