First Circuit: US v. Serrano-Acevedo

Insufficient articulable grounds for a protective sweep where two armed men robbed a bank, and both had been detained prior to the sweep through the house.

Subsequent consent to search was tainted by the fruits of the sweep.

Court's instruction sufficient to cure in-court statement by police officer saying that the robbers had been identified to him by name by an informant.

Other hearsay harmless. 


http://media.ca1.uscourts.gov/pdf.opinions/16-2009P-01A.pdf