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Supreme Court grants cert. on suppression issue

http://www.scotusblog.com/movabletype/archives/07-513_cert_rep.pdfThe US Supreme Court granted certiorari in four cases today, and agreed to hear an original case between Wyoming and Montana. Only one of the four cases concerns a criminal law issue. In Herring v. United States, the Court will consider whether evidence must be barred from a criminal trial if it was found in a search based on erroneous information from an officer who did not participate in the search. Specifically, officers in one jurisdiction checked with employees of a law enforcement agency in another jurisdiction and were told that there was an outstanding warrant for the defendant. Based upon that information, officers arrested the person and found contraband. It was later discovered that the warrant had been recalled...continue to full post

Full post as published by Harmful Error on February 19, 2008 (boomark / email).