United States v. Walker, No. 15-10710 (11th Cir. 2015)
Annotate this CaseDefendant conditionally pled guilty to one count of manufacturing counterfeit United States currency in violation of 18 U.S.C. 471. On appeal, defendant contends that the officers who found counterfeit bills in his home did not comply with the “knock and talk” exception to the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement and acted unreasonably by going to his house at 5:04 a.m. The court concluded that the district court did not err in denying defendant's motion to suppress the evidence of counterfeit currency found in the home where the officers' conduct was reasonable where they did not exceed the scope of the knock and talk exception. In this case, the officers' behavior did not objectively reveal a purpose to search, and approaching defendant's vehicle parked inside of his open-sided carport, instead of going to his front door, did not exceed the geographic limit on the knock and talk exception. Accordingly, the court affirmed the judgment.
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