Cocaine and crystal methamphetamine worth as much as $500,000 cannot be used to convict two suspected drug traffickers because federal agents-lacking a search warrant-lied to gain access to the house where the drugs were found, two federal judges in Atlanta have determined.
U.S. District Judge Timothy Batten Sr. on March 16 affirmed recommendations by U.S. Magistrate Judge Gerrilyn Brill to suppress the evidence, seized in a 2010 search of a Marietta home. The judges decided that agents with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration had violated the defendants’ rights when they sidestepped a search warrant with an unconstitutional ruse that yielded at least 16 kilos of cocaine, four pounds of crystal methamphetamine, guns and $7,000 in cash.
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