Police officers’ statements that they could obtain a search warrant even though they knew it was unlikely has led a federal judge to suppress a gun seized from a defendant’s home.
Southern District Judge Lewis Kaplan (See Profile) held that police representations about getting a search warrant and a second statement to defendant Christian Munoz that a gun found in his home would entitle them to arrest everyone in the house, invalidated Munoz’s consent for a search.
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