Vafaei v. United States Citizenship & Immigration Services (Uscis)

How courts have described this case

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• holding that where the government seized four documents and only introduced three into evidence, the admissibility of the fourth document is not at issue on appeal
• explaining that officers may “seize incriminating evidence in plain view” during a search
• rejecting a “clarifying amendment” that punished a defendant “more harshly” than the original Guide- line
• upholding plain view seizure of documents where seizing officer did not recognize the documents’ evidentiary character but brought them to a different officer in the house who did recognize their evidentiary character
• officer entitled to look at documents carefully enough to determine whether they were within scope of warrant
• permissible for government agents to review documents “carefully enough” to determine whether they were among class of documents subject to seizure under terms of search warrant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).