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· 9/19/1996

United States v. Marcus O. Evans, Samuel Tidwell, Gregory Fort, and Helen L. Fort

Citations

  • 92 F.3d 540

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that, regardless of ownership, a vehicle on the home’s curtilage may be searched pursuant to the search warrant for the house “unless it obviously belonged to someone wholly uninvolved in the criminal activities going on in the house”
  • stating that a warrant to search a house allows law enforcement to search a vehicle within the premises “unless [the vehicle] obviously belonged to someone wholly uninvolved in the criminal activities going on in the house”
  • search of trunk of vehicle in attached garage pursuant to warrant for house “with detached garage”

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Judges: Posner, Cummings, Wood

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