February 19, 2008

Supreme Court To Hear Case on Evidence Suppression

The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to consider whether evidence must be suppressed when authorities base an arrest on incorrect information from police files. The Coffee County, Ala., sheriff's department took Bennie Dean Herring into custody after being told by another county he was wanted for failing to appear in court on a felony charge. In a subsequent search, the sheriff's department found methamphetamine in Herring's pockets and an unloaded gun under the front seat of his truck. It turned out that the warrant for Herring's arrest had been recalled five months earlier.

Court to Consider Suppression Case, Associated Press, February 19, 2008.