Admission of Evidence.

Byline: Derek Hawkins

7th Circuit Court of Appeals

Case Name: United States of America v. Edwin Calligan

Case No.: 20-1817

Officials: SYKES, Chief Judge, and BRENNAN and ST. EVE, Circuit Judges.

Focus: Admission of Evidence

Before his trial on gun and drug charges, Edwin Calligan moved to suppress evidence from the search of a house he frequented. He argued that the underlying warrant was anticipatory and should not have been executed because its triggering conditionthe controlled delivery of a package with drugs, addressed to him, that police had interceptednever occurred. Yet the district court concluded that the warrant was supported by probable cause and had no triggering condition. The court therefore...