Perez v. State

Jose Luis Perez challenges the lower court’s order denying his motion to vacate his plea, judgments and sentences based upon newly-discovered evidence and upon an alleged Brady 1 violation. In his motion, Perez contended that this newly-discovered evidence supported the defense’s position that law enforcement illegally entered and seized evidence from his warehouse two days before obtaining and executing a search warrant of the warehouse. Perez argued that, had he been in possession of this evidence at the time of the motion to suppress, the preparation for, and outcome of, that hearing would…