United States v. Libertad Cruz

How courts have described this case

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• finding probable cause for search of drug dealer’s apartment, even though he was not seen using the apartment
• finding probable cause for search of drug dealer’s search of the apartment shared by Miggins and McDaniels, apartment, even though he was not seen using the apartment
• “Whether or not Cruz ever met the two streetcomer sellers, they clearly operated within an organization that he managed and organized.” (emphasis supplied)
• probable cause for search of drug dealer's apartment even though defendant was not seen using apartment
• “[E]ven if trial counsel had moved to suppress the evidence, there is little likelihood that the motion would have succeeded, and appellant therefore fails to meet the ‘prejudice’ prong of Strickland.”
• “We will not read into the statute a distinction between salaried ‘employees’ working directly under a ‘kingpin’ and ‘independent contractors’ or ‘franchisees’ who deal only with subordinates.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).