Legal Opinion
United States v. Santos
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided August 29, 2003No. 03 CR. 238(SAS)PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
SCHEINDLIN, District Judge.
When the police came to the home of defendant Rafael Santos they had neither a search warrant nor an arrest warrant, and they clearly lacked probable cause to arrest Santos. But the anonymous caller who led the officers to the apartment reported a disturbance in Apartment 2C of 1223 Wheeler Avenue (Santos’s apartment), and the complainant at the scene told the officers there was a gun in the drawer of the night-stand in Santos’s apartment. Rather than secure the premises and apply to the court for a search warrant, the police conducted a…
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