The issue
The issue
Officers found $763.00 in rolled up bills in the glove box and as five baggies of cocaine between the armrest and back seat of the vehicle. All three occupants of the car stated they had no prior knowledge of the cocaine being in the car and did not know who it belonged to. All three men were arrested and taken to the police station. Once at the station, Pringle confessed that the drugs were his and the other occupants had no knowledge of their existence. Once at trial, Pringle attempted to suppress his confession, stating that it was the fruit of an illegal arrest.…
The second case featured a man, Brima Wurie, who was arrested after a couple of police officers caught him in the middle of a drug deal. The officers seized two of Wurie’s cell phones and brought him back to the police station. Wurie’s flip phone kept receiving a call from the same number and the officer’s tracked it back to his apartment, where they “215 grams of crack cocaine and a loaded firearm.” Wurie was kept for drug and firearm charges that wouldn’t have been discovered if not for information presented by his flip phone during the warrantless search. The District Court denied Wurie’s request, which asked for the evidence obtained through the search to be thrown out, and then he was convicted.…
The Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 vote that the evidence was illegally obtained and thus could not be used in the court of…
The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland affirmed. The Supreme Court then granted certiorari and then reversed the Court of Appeals of Maryland’s decision Facts: Joseph Pringle was a front-seat passenger in a car that was stopped and searched by police. After police found $763 in cash in the glove compartment and baggies of cocaine hidden in the armrest in the back seat, Pringle was arrested. Pringle…
BRIEF FACT OF SUAMMRY : In January 1991, Phoenix police officer Bryan Sargent observed Isaac Evans driving the wrong way on a one-way street. Sargent directed Evans to pull over and asked to see his license. FACTS: Evans informed Sargent that his license was suspended, and upon running the license, Sargent found that there was also an outstanding warrant for Evans’ arrest. During the arrest, Evans dropped a hand-rolled cigarette that smelled of marijuana, so officers searched his car and discovered a bag of marijuana.…
Name: Case brief assignment Prof: Minnesota v Dickerson, 508 U.S.3669 (1993) Facts of the case Two Minneapolis police officers were patrolling the North area of the city in a marked police car in the evening on November 9, 1989. There was the defendant, Timothy Dickerson, in a known drug zone. At around 8:15 p.m., one officer observed the defendant leaving a 12-unit apartment building along Morgan Avenue, a renowned drug sale premise.…
Police authorities momentarily became involved. F and C were arrested incident to the locating of the vehicle. When the pat-down procedure was conducted on F, a cell phone was found and retained as evidence for the trial against the accused. The police subsequently conducted a search of the cell phone and once more within two hours of the arrest.…
Let’s begin with the killing of Los Angeles Police Department officer Kevin Gaines. He was shot by undercover officer frank Lyga. Lyga was involved in a road rage incident with Gaines and suspected him of being a gang member. After his untimely death it came to be known that on his off duty time he worked as a security guard. It also came to light that this was not his first road rage case where he would threaten drives with a gun.…
Nazia Hanif Crim Pro pd. 5 Motion to Suppress The City of New York vs. L.O.L. TO THE HONORABLE JUDGE OF SAID COURT: Defendant files this Motion to Suppress pursuant to the Fourth Amendments to the United States Constitution.…
The police officers found evidence of drug use in the trash. They then used this evidence to obtain a search warrant, a legal document permitting the searching of property by police or the government, to search Mr. Greenwood's home. Once inside they found evidence of drug use and trafficking.…
However, “this wasn’t, in actuality, a war on drugs,” it was a war on black people (74). Crack hit the streets rather suddenly. It was cheaper and easier to use than cocaine and happened to be “one of the most addictive drugs in the world” (71, 72). The irony, however, is that President Reagan and the CIA were behind the explosion of crack in America. It was all a big cover-up being used to pay for America’s role in the Contra War in Nicaragua (72, 73).…
Targeting heavily black populated areas, the police have cut no card when trying to perpetuate a war on drugs. With the election of President Richard Nixon, the war on drugs would take a shocking turn. " In June 1971, President Nixon declared a 'war on drugs. ' He dramatically increased the size and presence of federal drug control agencies, and pushed through measures such as mandatory sentencing and no-knock warrants." (DrugPolicy.org)…
The Cocaine Cowboys documentary about drugs, more specifically drug use, drug trafficking, drug smuggling and money laundry in the 1960s and onward highlight specific issues the government has with the infamous war on drugs. Since there was no border control or patrol, as stated by the documentary, drugs came in and out of the harbor in Florida. In 1956, Miami was a quiet. The documentary stated that one police car patrolled Miami at night. There was “no money, no buildings, it was like down south”.…
Drug Paraphernalia Florida Statute 893.145 The Fort Lauderdale Defense Lawyer Bradford Cohen has experience in criminal cases of Drug Paraphernalia. You can be criminally charged with possessing syringes, rolling papers, pipes, bongs, straws, or anything else used to ingest or assist in ingesting illegal narcotics. There is a wide use of discretion when it comes to getting charged with this crime. Usually it is charged along with a criminal charge of possession of drugs or narcotics, but it does not have to be charged in such a manner.…
The man was spotted by Deputy Kyle Farley as he was patrolling Ditty Road when he observed a car out turn into a driveway on Ditty road. Farley tried to talk to the driver who identified himself as Ronald Black and he was carrying a passenger called William Post. A strong smell of alcohol was coming from both Post and Black. On closer scrutiny, a bag of pills were found, identified as morphine sulphate which Black claimed to be medication prescription. Post admitted to be under influence and was charged with public intoxication while Black was served with warrants for the eighth DUI, violation of implied consent law and possession of a controlled drug (Amburgey, 2014).…