U.S. v. Lewis, No. 16-3308 (8th Cir.) (864 F.3d 937) (July 27, 2017) (Judge William Duane Benton)
This decision is noted for the Eighth Circuit’s emphatic rejection of the Government’s claimed use of the “plain view” exception to the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement, because of the Government’s failure to prove one of the critical (but often overlooked) elements of that exception - namely that the object’s incriminating ...
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