A husband cannot win a suppression bid by claiming police violated due process by lying to and tricking his wife into surrendering drugs she had secreted in her body, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held Monday.

Reversing a lower court judge who found the behavior of Vermont State Police shocked the conscience, the Second Circuit held that U.S. Supreme Court case law barred the due process claim of defendant Valentino Anderson for drugs seized from his wife, Crystal.