The following excerpt is from U.S. v. Valenzuela, 596 F.2d 1361 (9th Cir. 1979):
Id. at 308, 78 S.Ct. at 1195 (footnote omitted, emphasis in original). In Ng Pui Yu v. United States, 352 F.2d at 632, we relied in part upon this passage to hold that entry through an open door was not within 18 U.S.C. 3109.
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