Calling the search “unreasonable,” “jarring” and “demeaning,” a 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel nevertheless ruled that crack cocaine, which police located through the involuntary sedation and anal probe of a defendant, was admissible at trial because police obtained a warrant authorizing the procedure in good faith.
According to the Feb. 2 opinion in United States v. Rondrick Lamar Gray , the background in the case is as follows: Based on a confidential informant’s tip that Gray was selling crack cocaine, San Angelo police stopped Gray’s vehicle and arrested him for outstanding warrants. A passenger in Gray’s car told police that Gray threw a plastic bag containing what she believed to be crack cocaine at her and asked her to conceal it, which she refused to do. Police found no drugs in Gray’s car. [See the opinion.]
