COOPER

v.

UNITED STATES

Citator

Cited By (17 total)

• State v. Pruitt, 967 So. 2d 1021 (Fla. 2d DCA 2007)
  …to protect large quantities of drugs); c.f. United States v. Buchanan, 910 F. 2d 1571, 1573 (7th Cir.1990) (recognizing that [*1028] guns are tools of the drug trade); United States v. Alvarez, 860 F. 2d 801, 829 (7th Cir.1988) (same), cert. denied, 490 U.S. 1051, 109 S.Ct. 1966, 104 L.Ed.2d 434 (1989). With these considerations in mind, we believe the gun reputedly in Singer’s possession posed a quantifiable risk to the safety of the officers executing the warrant; therefore, this exigent circumstance permi…
• Wilson v. State, 673 So. 2d 505 (Fla. 1st DCA 1996)
  …ecessary to protect large quantities of drugs); c.f United States v. Buchanan, 910 F. 2d 1571, 1573 (7th Cir.1990) (recognizing that guns are tools of the drug trade); United States v. Alvarez, 860 F. 2d 801, 829 (7th Cir.1988) (same), cert. denied, 490 U.S. 1051, 109 S.Ct. 1966, 104 L.Ed.2d 434 (1989). With these considerations in mind, we believe the gun reputedly in Singer’s possession posed a quantifiable risk to the safety of the officers executing the warrant; therefore, this exigent circumstance permi…
• United States v. Leichtnam, 948 F.2d 370 (7th Cir. 1991)
  …vidence of the handguns in its proof of the drug conspiracy for which Leichtnam was tried and convicted. This is a perfectly legitimate basis for the admission of the evidence. In United States v. Alvarez, 860 F. 2d 801 (7th Cir.1988), cert. denied, 490 U.S. 1051, 109 S.Ct. 1966, 104 L.Ed.2d 434 (1989), we considered a challenge to the admission of a gun as evidence of its owner’s involvement in a drug conspiracy. The defendant [Ms. Rivera] .had argued that the gun, which was discovered by police along with…