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· 12/1/1981

United States v. Joseph A. Timpani

Citations

  • 665 F.2d 1
  • 1981 U.S. App. LEXIS 15569

How courts have described this case

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

  • upholding warrant referring to loan sharking and gambling in addition to listing eight federal statutes
  • upholding warrant referring to loan sharking and gambling in addi tion to listing eight federal statutes
  • “The warrant breaks the items into categories. Each item is plausibly related to the crime . . . that is specifically set out.”
  • “In a word, it might well have been dangerous to leave the weapons in the bedroom; and removing them to the car while the search went on, in our view, was reasonable”.
  • police may seize weapons while executing search warrant
  • forty-five minute detention during search not unreasonable

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Judges: Breyer, Campbell, Van Sen Breyer

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