UNITED STATES v. LEWIS

No. 83-1947.

738 F.2d 916 (1984)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. James W. LEWIS, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided June 29, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John T. Maughmer, Lathrop, Koontz, Righter, Clagett & Norquist, Kansas City, Mo., for appellant.

Robert G. Ulrich, U.S. Atty., Robert E. Larsen, Asst. U.S. Atty., Kansas City, Mo., for appellee.

Before McMILLIAN, Circuit Judge, FLOYD R. GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge, and JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.


JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.

James W. Lewis was convicted on six counts of mail fraud for devising and implementing a fraudulent credit card scheme. On appeal Lewis argues that the district court1 should have held that the warrantless opening of a mailbox bearing the name "David Woods" tainted all subsequently obtained search warrants, rendering all evidence produced by those warrants inadmissible. He also contends that the first search...

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