United States Ninth Circuit

A conviction for harboring undocumented aliens is reversed, where the district court should have granted the defendant's motion to suppress evidence of aliens found at his home as the fruit of a warrantless search and seizure, because the agents physically occupied the curtilage of the defendant's home without obtaining a warrant, and no exceptions to the warrant requirement otherwise justified the search or seizure.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/31/2012
• Published 05/31/2012

Judges

• Wardlaw

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Gregory T. Murphy, Laura E. Duffy