U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
United States v. Willie Lee Cooks
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- Type
- Opinion of the Court
- Filed
- April 3, 2019
- Case
- United States v. Willie Lee Cooks
- Case status
- Decided
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NEWSOM, Circuit Judge: In the ordinary case, an arrest warrant doesn't automatically authorize police to search the arrestee's residence-the home search requires its own warrant. This isn't the ordinary case. The question here is whether police violated the Fourth Amendment when they conducted a warrantless search of the crawlspace in Willie Lee Cooks's home following a four-hour standoff that the responding officer…
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