U.S. v. THOMAS

No. 04-6148.

430 F.3d 274 (2005)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Christopher Todd THOMAS, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: December 1, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Victor L. Ivy, Assistant United States Attorney, Jackson, Tennessee, for Appellant. C. Mark Donahoe, Hardee, Martin, Dauster & Donahoe, Jackson, Tennessee, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Victor L. Ivy, Assistant United States Attorney, Jackson, Tennessee, for Appellant. C. Mark Donahoe, Hardee, Martin, Dauster & Donahoe, Jackson, Tennessee, for Appellee.

Before: SILER and SUTTON, Circuit Judges; SHARP, District Judge.


SUTTON, Circuit Judge.

The United States challenges a suppression-of-evidence ruling, arguing that the district court erred in concluding that police officers constructively entered a home without a warrant and without being able to satisfy any of the narrow exceptions to the warrant requirement. Because the police officers did not enter the house and because the defendant, Christopher Thomas, did not exit the house as a result of physical force or any other conspicuous...

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