Heffernan v. City of Chicago

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

JEFFREY COLE, United States Magistrate Judge.

This lawsuit is about the search of the plaintiffs home pursuant to a warrant. One of the defendants, Officer Corona, procured the warrant based on a tip from an informant that marijuana was being sold out of the home and that a large quantity of it would be found there. The search yielded no marijuana, but Officer Corona did come up with a single pill that he identified as ecstasy. It wasn’t ecstasy. It didn’t even look like ecstasy; Officer Corona had, in fact, given a faulty description of the pill at the prelimi*333nary…