United States v. $186,416.00 in U.S. Currency

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• holding that a two month gap between an illegal search and a defendant’s subsequent declaration was not sufficient to render the declaration attenuated from the search
• holding that without considering the amount of money illegally seized by the government, “the mere presence of currency, of any amount” was insufficient to connect the money to drug sales
• finding the defendant’s declaration—which he submitted for “the express purpose of securing the return of the illegally seized currency”— was a product of the illegal search and seizure
• requiring state law enforcement officers to indicate pursuits of violations of federal law in their affidavits, or to seek a search warrant from a federal magistrate, to support a finding of probable cause for the violation of a federal crime
• “The federal government has not recognized a legitimate medical use for marijuana, however, and there is no exception for medical marijuana distribution or possession under the federal Controlled Substances Act”
• requiring state 3  Statev. Reis (William   Michael

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).