United States Eighth Circuit

In a prosecution for drug-related offenses, denial of defendant's motion to suppress evidence is affirmed where: 1) defendant did not have a legitimate expectation of privacy in a hotel room as a "mere visitor"; and 2) a non-consensual search of the room was justified by the underlying exigent circumstances which were not manufactured by the officers.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/07/2008
• Published 04/07/2008

Judges

• BENTON, Circuit Judge., Before COLLOTON, BEAM, and BENTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Susan M. Hunt, Kansas City, MO, argued, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bruce E. Clark, Asst. U.S. Atty., Kansas City, MO, argued (John F. Wood, U.S. Atty., on the brief), for appellee.