Opinion ID: 445460
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Heading: Search Pursuant to Warrant.

Text: 74 We also reject the claim that the search pursuant to the warrant was illegal. Having lawfully entered the room, agents' plain view observation of Santiago's name tag was perfectly legal; including that in the affidavit, therefore, was entirely proper. Moreover, we reject the claim that the securing of the hotel room while a warrant was obtained itself violated the fourth amendment even if nothing observed during the interim was used to obtain the warrant. Weinrich relies on United States v. Allard, 634 F.2d 1182 (9th Cir.1980), for the proposition that, following an illegal entry, agents cannot secure premises while obtaining a warrant. Fruits of the warrant must be suppressed even if the warrant had an independent source. Id. at 1187. Whatever the current status of the Allard rule, see Segura v. United States, --- U.S. ----, 104 S.Ct. 3380, 82 L.Ed.2d 599 (1983) (securing a dwelling, on the basis of probable cause, to prevent the destruction or removal of evidence while a search warrant is being sought is not unreasonable seizure) (per Burger, J. and O'Connor, J.), it does not apply here. We have held that the initial warrantless entry into room 224 was legal. We think agents properly limited the scope of warrantless searches to the rationale excepting the search from the warrant requirement, United States v. Metz, 608 F.2d 147, 155 (5th Cir.1979), cert. denied, 449 U.S. 821, 101 S.Ct. 80, 66 L.Ed.2d 24 (1980), by securing rather than searching. Therefore, we reject Weinrich's claim that the evidence discovered pursuant to the full search should have been suppressed. 75