United States Seventh Circuit

The failure to arrest a suspect before he took an unopened package to the defendant's house does not create an exigency; the exigency ripened only when the package was opened and the government transmitter was discovered.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/16/2001
• Published 10/16/2001

Judges

• EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, EASTERBROOK, and KANNE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Lovita Morris King (argued), Office of United States Attorney, Dyer, IN, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Jeffrey A. Simmons (argued), Foley & Lardner, Madison, WI, for Defendant-Appellant.