Court Opinion

ID: 710920
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Date Created: 2012-04-17 06:31:25+00
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73 F.3d 825
UNITED STATES of America, Appellee,v.Ben Nouglas DEANDA, Edward Contrell Sample, Edmond ClydeSample, and Jerome Edward Wiley, Appellants.
Nos. 95-3085, 95-3086, 95-3189, and 95-3206.
United States Court of Appeals,Eighth Circuit.
Submitted Jan. 9, 1996.Decided Jan. 16, 1996.

Stuart Vess, N. Little Rock, AR, argued (Charles L. Carpenter, Phillip McGough and Claibourne C. Crews, on the brief), for appellant.
Linda Lipe, Little Rock, AR, argued, for appellee.
Before RICHARD S. ARNOLD, Chief Judge, BOWMAN, Circuit Judge, and JONES,* District Judge.
RICHARD S. ARNOLD, Chief Judge.

1
The appellants, Ben Nouglas Deanda, Edward Contrell Sample, Edmond Clyde Sample, and Jerome Edward Wiley, all entered conditional pleas of guilty to drug offenses.  On this appeal, they challenge the decision of the District Court1 to deny their motion to suppress evidence.

2
In the main, the appeal presents only issues of fact.  The District Court decided that the appellant Wiley voluntarily opened the door of his house to officers, and thereafter voluntarily consented to the search of his house.  These findings were based on the District Court's determination that the testimony of the officers was more credible than that of the defendants.  The findings are not clearly erroneous.  Nor was any error of law committed.  The officers, acting on an anonymous tip, knocked on Wiley's door and asked to come in.  Wiley willingly let them in.  The officers did not enter with a display of force or otherwise in a coercive manner.  They did not demand or obtain entry under authority of law.  They simply knocked on the door and were let in.  The evidence at issue was thereafter observed either in plain view or as a result of Wiley's consent to search the entire house.

3
Affirmed.

*
 The Hon.  John B. Jones, United States District Judge for the District of South Dakota, sitting by designation

1
 The Hon.  Garnett Thomas Eisele, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas