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First Circuit: Home Search Affidavit Failed to Establish Nexus of Crime and Evidence
Loaded on April 15, 2020
by David Reutter
published in Criminal Legal News
May, 2020, page 23
Filed under:
Nexus between crime and property,
Fruit of the Poisonous Tree.
Location:
Massachusetts.
by David Reutter
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit affirmed the suppression of evidence seized from a suspected drug dealer’s home as fruit of the poisonous tree.
Jamal Roman was alleged in a search warrant application submitted by DEA Special Agent Scott Smith to be “a known ...
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