Police used a cannabis-buying informant to obtain a warrant, then entered Juan Colon Rijos’s St. Croix apartment with a passkey without announcing themselves. The court found sufficient grounds for the warrant but ruled the entry and subsequent personal search unlawful, excluding the heroin and other evidence they produced.[1]
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References
- District Court of the Virgin Islands — Government v. Rijos, 6 June 19681968 · 6 V.I. 475, pp. 483–489 and final order; marijuana warrant, unannounced passkey entry and suppression; judicial opinion reproduced by Legal Calculators.
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