A motion to dismiss for an alleged illegal search is not the proper way to raise the issue. United States v. Ruiz-Ruiz, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 47357 (D.P.R. Mar. 12, 2025):<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Defendants cannot point to a pending Motion to Suppress and assume its favorable outcome as a rationale for dismissing the current Indictment. Additionally, a Rule 12(b) motion “does not ‘provide an occasion to force the government to defend the sufficiency of its evidence to be marshalled in support of proving the charged offense.'” United States v. Keleher, 505 F. Supp. 3d 41, 46 (D.P.R. 2020) (citing Rodr\u00edguez-Rivera, 918 F.3d at 35).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At this stage, the Government has sufficiently alleged facts corresponding to the required elements of the crimes charged. Beyond that, the sufficiency of the Government’s evidence is a matter for trial. Vega-Mart\u00ednez, 949 F.3d at 49.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A motion to dismiss for an alleged illegal search is not the proper way to raise the issue. United States v. Ruiz-Ruiz, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 47357 (D.P.R. Mar. 12, 2025):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motion-to-suppress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60470,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60469\/revisions\/60470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}