Legal Opinion
Davis v. District of Columbia
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided January 15, 2016No. Civil Action No. 2015-1497PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
JAMES E. BOASBERG, United States District Judge
It is not surprising that when certain drug dealers are arrested on the street, police officers may seek search warrants for their homes in order to locate additional evidence or contraband. In an unfortunate twist here, Metropolitan Police Department officers obtained a warrant for the home of Plaintiff Jerome Davis after an arrestee misleadingly provided Davis’s address instead of his own. The officers then allegedly ransacked Davis’s apartment in a fruitless search.
Yet this suit does not predominantly take aim at the…
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