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Sixth Circuit· 12/14/1990

United States v. Ragheed Akrawi

Citations

  • 920 F.2d 418
  • 1990 U.S. App. LEXIS 21674
  • 1990 WL 200709

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that a protective sweep was unreasonable, in part, because “[t]he searching officers articulated no specific basis for believing that the second floor of [the residence] harbored any individual posing a threat to the agents”
  • mere presence of accomplice’s mother and possible presence of defendant’s girlfriend insufficient to establish reasonable belief that dangerous persons were on premises
  • protective sweep of second floor of home was improper where no specific or articulable facts for officers to believe anyone else was inside posing a safety threat

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Judges: Krupansky, Milburn, Brown

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