By: Derek Hawkins//February 8, 2016//
7th Circuit Court of Appeals
Case Name: United States of America v. Aaron Thompson
Case No.: 15-2008
Officials: MANION, KANNE, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.
Focus: Motion to suppress
Appellant inviting informant into his home defeats arguments for expectation of privacy and 4th amendment violations.
“Here, Thompson invited the informant into the apartment for the purpose of engaging in a drug transaction. While there, the informant did not “see, hear, or take anything that was not contemplated” as part of the illegal drug transaction. See Lewis, 385 U.S. at 210; see also Scherer, 673 F.3d at 182. That the informant recorded his observations on video did not transform the consensual encounter into a search for purposes of the Fourth Amendment.”
Affirmed