United States v. Cordero-Rosario

BARRON, Circuit Judge.

This appeal concerns a district court’s decision to deny a sweeping motion to suppress evidence in a federal child pornography prosecution. The defendant contends that all of the evidence that he seeks to suppress may be traced to two ’ allegedly unconstitutional searches that the Puerto Rico police carried out before he was even under suspicion on the federal charges.

The defendant seeks first to suppress any evidence that was acquired in those two searches. And we agree that, under the established precedent of the Supreme Court and our Circuit, the searches carried out…