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U.S. v. COLEMAN

No. 08-5038.

588 F.3d 816 (2009)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Steve Maurice COLEMAN, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: December 4, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Thomas Ernest Booth, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Appellant. David Truitt, Salley Law Firm, Lexington, South Carolina, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: W. Walter Wilkins, III, United States Attorney, Robert C. Jendron, Jr., Assistant United States Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellant.

Reversed and remanded by published opinion. Judge WILKINSON wrote the opinion, in which Chief Judge TRAXLER and Senior Judge HAMILTON joined.

OPINION

WILKINSON, Circuit Judge:

This case involves the consensual search of a bedroom by police and the seizure of a pistol resulting from the search. As explained below, we reverse the district court's grant of the motion to suppress the pistol. The district court viewed the evidence through the lens of its later significance, but we hold that the officers acted reasonably in seizing it based on what they knew at the time.

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