Admission of Evidence

By: Derek Hawkins//October 5, 2021//

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7^th 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 condition—the controlled delivery of a package with drugs, addressed to him, that police had intercepted—never occurred. Yet the district court concluded that the warrant was supported by probable cause and had no triggering condition. The court therefore admitted the evidence, and a jury convicted Calligan. Because the district court judge was correct and, in any event, police relied on the warrant in good faith, we affirm.

Affirmed

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Derek A Hawkins is Corporate Counsel, at Salesforce.

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