United States v. Joaquin Garcia, Joaquin Garcia v. Margaret C. Hambrick, Warden, Metropolitan Detention Center Los Angeles

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• explaining that Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 10(e) cannot be used “to supplement the record with material not introduced or with findings not made”
• finding no Fourth Amendment violation when police officers posing as apartment hunters and speaking with occupants of an apartment saw defendant holding cocaine through screen door
• finding an inference of consent when a defendant opened his door and, after law enforcement officers said, “we’d like to talk to you,” the defendant responded, “‘okay,’ nodded and stepped back”
• machine gun used to protect and embolden drug dealer found in house with a kilo of heroin, 4.5 kilos of cocaine, and 1.24 grams of cocaine base
• “If the front and back of a residence are readily accessible from a public place, like the driveway or parking area here, the Fourth Amendment is not implicated when officers go to the back door reasonably believing it is used as a principal entrance to the dwelling.”
• “If the front and back of a residence are readily accessible from a public place, like the driveway . . ., the Fourth Amendment is not implicated when officers go to the back door reasonably believing it is used as a principal entrance to the dwelling.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).