United States v. Blalock

OPINION

JOSEPH S. LORD, III, District Judge.

This is a motion to suppress twenty-one twenty dollar bills seized by the F.B. I. in a search of defendant’s hotel room in Miami, Florida. At defendant’s trial, I denied the motion, but later found it necessary to grant a new trial and a new hearing on the motion prior thereto. 253 F.Supp. 860 (E.D.Pa., 1966). From the testimony at that hearing I find these to have been the relevant circumstances:

Defendant was suspected of robbing the Parke Towne Branch of the Broad Street Trust Company. The bank had kept in its cash drawers “bait money”, the serial…