United States Tenth Circuit

Officers' reasonable reliance on confidential informant and reasonable belief that defendant-arrestee (1) lived in residence at time of entry to search it is sufficient to justify entry, so long as defendant had common authority over, or other significant relationship to premises, and (2) defendant was in residence at the time of entry.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/12/2001
• Published 02/12/2001

Judges

• BRORBY, Circuit Judge., Before BRORBY, PORFILIO and BALDOCK, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Timothy W. Ogilvie (Daniel G. Webber, Jr., United States Attorney, with him on the brief), Assistant United States Attorney, Oklahoma City, OK, for Plaintiff-Appellee., William P. Earley, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Oklahoma City, OK, for Defendant-Appellant.