Legal Opinion
United States v. Herbert Roberts, Joan Roberts, and Lewis Bromberg
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided July 21, 1988No. 1009, Docket 87-1547PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAM C. CONNER, District Judge:
The United States of America appeals from an order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Hon. Robert W. Sweet, Judge), directing that appellees’ seized business records be returned and suppressed pursuant to Rule 41(e), Fed.R.Civ.P. 1 Roberts v. United States, 656 F.Supp. 929 (S.D.N.Y.1987). The District Judge ruled that the search warrant on which the seizure was based was so sweeping as to be a “general” warrant violating the particularity requirement of the fourth amendment; that there was no probable cause to support a…
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