Legal Opinion
United States v. Rodger Beaudoin, United States of America v. Robert Champagne
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 22, 2004No. 02-1757, 02-1850PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
This appeal presents interesting questions about the application of the Fourth Amendment when an anonymous tipster informs police that there is a dead body in a motel room.
A series of events cascaded from that tip, resulting in the arrests of Rodger Beaudoin and Robert Champagne on various drug-related charges and a federal prosecution for conspiracy to distribute cocaine and crack and for possession of crack with intent to distribute. 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), 846. Before trial, the defendants each moved to suppress all of the evidence that the police had found in a search…
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