Legal Opinion
State v. Tella
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided June 12, 1974No. 73-83-C.APublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
J0sLIN, J.
This appeal arises from the trial and conviction of the defendant before a judge and jury in the Superior Court on three indictments, each of which charged him with receiving stolen property in violation of G. L. 1956 (1969 Reenactment) §11-41-2. Because we find that the evidence upon which those indictments and convictions were based was the product of a search made pursuant to an invalid search warrant, we reverse.
On August 24, 1971, Sergeant Lionel J. Benjamin of the Rhode Island State Police presented a District Court judge with an application for a warrant to search certain…
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