Eighth Circuit: United States v. Demetrius Colbert


Crim, Fourth Amendment, FRE, Conspiracy, Sentencing


Sufficient showing of alternative means before wiretap.

Connection to the person sufficed for search warrant for house.

No abuse of discretion in refusing to allow evidence of circumstances in a similar police search.

Conspiracy counts appropriately joined to firearms counts, as they arose from same conspiracy.

Sufficient evidence.

Life sentence procedurally & substantively reasonable.


United States  v.  Demetrius Colbert