Legal Opinion
United States v. Graf
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 21, 2015No. 14-1156PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
THOMPSON, Circuit Judge.
Working on a tip from a confidential informant, police searched defendant-appellant Richard Grafs home, turning up marijuana and an illegal gun. Graf was subsequently indicted on drug and firearm charges.
He moved in a pre-trial motion to suppress the seized evidence, arguing to a Maine federal magistrate judge that to sweet-talk a state court justice of the peace into signing off on the search warrant application, a police detective sugarcoated the facts in his sworn statement accompanying it. As part of his motion to suppress, Graf also requested an evidentiary…
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