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· 3/5/1996

United States v. Clarence Davis Blue, Also Known as John Blue

Citations

  • 78 F.3d 56
  • 1996 U.S. App. LEXIS 3870

How courts have described this case

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

  • concluding that a search cannot be justified as a protective sweep where the officers have “failed to articulate specific reasons for their suspicion that the [area searched] harbored a dangerous person”
  • DEA agents discover a machine gun under a mattress while searching an apartment during a cocaine investigation
  • protective sweep conducted incident to in-home arrest exceeded permissible scope by including areas beyond potential grab area of detainees

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Meskill, Altimari, Calabresi

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