U.S. v. BUTTERWORTH

No. 07-1334.

511 F.3d 71 (2007)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Ryan BUTTERWORTH, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided December 20, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Paul DeGrinney, by appointment of the court, with whom DeGrinney Law Offices was on brief for appellant.

F. Mark Terison, Senior Litigation Counsel, with whom Paula D. Silsby, United States Attorney, was on brief for appellee.

Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, SELYA and STAHL, Senior Circuit Judges.


BOUDIN, Chief Judge.

Bobbi Jo Barker tipped off the police that her boyfriend, Michael Lovely, was engaged with Ryan Butterworth in a drug trafficking partnership carried on from an apartment shared by Lovely and Butterworth in Westbrook, Maine. Agents searched trash bags outside the building, found evidence of drugs, and — after obtaining a warrant — searched the Lovely-Butterworth apartment, finding bags of marijuana and crack and a scale bearing drug...

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