Tag: drug trafficking
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Federal judge bars government from using seized narcotics in drug trafficking case
A federal judge last month barred the government from using more than two dozen pounds of narcotics seized from a vehicle as evidence against the defendants because a Colorado state trooper violated the prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures. When Trooper Joshua St. Onge pulled over Ezequiel Pita-Chavolla and Manuel Pacheco for a traffic infraction,…
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10th Circuit finds no issue with pro-police robocall mysteriously played during criminal trial
The federal appeals court based in Denver declined last month to overturn a defendant’s drug conviction on account of a bizarre announcement that played over the speakers mid-trial warning about “criminals” who want to “defund the police.” A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit also refused to order a…