United States v. Cochrane

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

PETTINE, Senior District Judge.

Defendants Rickie Cochrane and Joni Seplocha have moved to suppress the fruits of a search of 875 Branch Avenue, Providence, Rhode Island. They have raised several issues as to the legality of the search, specifically:

1) whether the judge who issued the search warrant was acting as a “neutral and detached magistrate”;

2) whether the affidavit was sufficient to establish the probable cause necessary for the search;

3) whether the search for drugs, requested in the Complaint to Search, was merely a pretext for a search for information about an…