Illegal Search of Apartment Without a Search Warrant: Guns and Drugs Suppressed.
Oct 16, 2014OUTCOME: Case dismissed
A judge in the Superior Court suppressed guns and several pounds of marijuana after police kicked down the door of an apartment following a report that man had been beaten up and threatened with a gun. ... The detective who authored the police report claimed that officers noticed the guns and drugs in plain view as they quickly went through the apartment to make sure that there were no people who posed a threat to them. I demanded the “turret tape” which is a recording of all police communications over the radio and called all 9 officers who responded to the scene. Through their testimony and the recording I was able to establish that the people in the apartment had already been taken outside and arrested long before the police found the guns during an illegal warrantless search. The case was dismissed since the evidence had been suppressed.
