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Assume that an applicable state statute makes it a crime for a private citizen to possess a machine gun.
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For approximately three weeks, officer roy holt had probable cause to believe that alex hood, a private citizen, possessed an arsenal of machine guns in his apartment.
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Acting on this probable cause, but without a warrant, holt knocked on the door of hood's apartment and asked hood if he could come in and talk with him.
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Hood let holt inside his apartment.
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Then without hood's consent, holt began searching the entire apartment.
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Holt found several machine guns in the bedroom closet.
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He arrested hood for an alleged violation of the statute mentioned above.
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In a pretrial motion, hood's attorney asked that the court applied the exclusionary rule and suppressed the evidence yielded by holt's search of hood's apartment.
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Should the evidence be suppressed, meaning it's not admitted at trial? yes, it should be...