United States v. Shetler

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that Miranda warnings “are insufficient to ‘purge the taint of a temporally proximate prior illegal’ act”
• finding that the “primary or principal purpose” formulation “better comports with the statutory language, which proscribes only those drug activities that are ‘the purpose’ to which the property is put”
• noting that “in the residential context, the manufacture (or distribution or use) of drugs must be at least one of the primary or principal uses to which the house is put”
• stating that we review de novo the sufficiency of the evidence
• imposing a high bar for application of the criminal statute because it “better comports with the statutory language” and “ensures that the statute is not unconstitutionally vague.”
• finding but-for causality in part because the “physical evidence obtained in the illegal search was significantly greater and more inculpatory than” the evidence obtained in an earlier legal search

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).