Police stopped a driver after a DMV database showed his license was suspended.
The search that followed turned up a gun and 31 grams of crack cocaine.
But the defense challenged whether the DMV information used to justify the stop was reliable — and prosecutors never proved that it was.
A New York appeals court reversed the convictions, suppressed the evidence, and dismissed the indictment entirely.
For criminal defense lawyers, the suppression ruling is worth checking out.
-The Criminal Defense Brief