Legal Opinion
United States v. John C. Roche
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 21, 1980No. 79-1306PublishedCited by 82 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COFFIN, Chief Judge.
The government here appeals pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3731 from the district court’s suppression of evidence. The court ruled that the warrants sanctioning thirteen searches were invalid because they did not describe the items to be seized with sufficient particularity to meet the standards of the Fourth Amendment. Because we believe that the district court’s ruling correctly applied settled law within this circuit on the degree of particularity required in warrants authorizing searches of business records, we affirm.
The thirteen warrants, issued in December 1976 and January…
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