United States v. Dedrick

MEMORANDUM

YOUNG, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

Assumptions ought not be drawn where not necessary. This is the essence of the Ockham’s razor; when the simplest explanation seems correct, complex theories ought not be postulated without necessity (entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem).

This is a motion to suppress evidence, where the defendant wants the Court to speculate as to alternative theories concerning where he stored the drugs sold in two controlled buys occurring in the hallway outside his apartment. This Court is bound to analyze the facts in a commonsense rather than a…