· 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
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- 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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