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Parolee's Conviction Reversed for Illegal Probation Search

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a parolee's conviction for possessing a gun because the warrantless probation search was unconstitutional and subsequent incriminating statements were inadmissible under the "fruit of the poisoned tree" doctrine.

Curtis Ray Howard was convicted of bank robbery in 1996 and placed on supervised ...

 

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