United States v. Thompson, No. 16-4091 (8th Cir. 2018)
Annotate this CaseThe Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance. The court held that defendant's motion to suppress was properly denied where defendant had no objectively reasonable expectation of privacy in the trash, which had been left for collection in an area accessible to the public; the evidence was sufficient to support defendant's conviction; and defendant's remaining ten arguments in his pro se supplemental brief were without merit.
Court Description: Shepherd, Author, with Wollman, Circuit Judge, and Goldberg, Judge of the United States Court of International Trade] Criminal case - Criminal case. No error in admitting evidence seized during a warrantless search of defendant's trash, which had been left for collection in an area accessible to the public; evidence was sufficient to show defendant possessed and intended to distribute methamphetamine.
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