United States Eighth Circuit

Denial of a motion to suppress evidence in a prosecution for drug-related offenses is affirmed where: 1) officers did not violate defendant's constitutional rights by asking him why it took so long for him to answer the door when they arrived to serve an eviction notice; and 2) crack cocaine found in defendant's coat and his subsequent incriminating statements were not fruits of an unlawful detention that must be excluded from evidence.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/04/2007
• Published 10/04/2007

Judges

• BOWMAN, Circuit Judge., Before BENTON, BOWMAN, and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robin D. Fowler, Overland Park, KS, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• David DeTar Newbert, Asst. U.S. Atty., Kansas City, MO (Bradley J. Schlozman, U.S. Atty., on the brief), for appellee.