United States v. Douglas Rivera

How courts have described this case

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• holding that when agents did not immediately search a car that they had probable cause to believe contained contraband, but removed it to a DEA garage, the delay did not invalidate the search
• upholding the denial of motion to sever of two defendants who sold drugs together
• where the law enforcement officers had information of distribution of large amounts of drugs
• “Once a room is legally entered under exigent circumstances, a subsequent search or seizure of items in the room must be justified by a warrant or an exception to the warrant requirement.”
• “[T]he appropriate inquiry is whether the facts, as they appeared at the moment of entry, would lead a reasonable, experienced agent to believe that evidence might be destroyed before a warrant could be secured.” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).