We represented a client on appeal from his federal conviction for armed bank robbery and possession of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence. We persuaded the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit that the government failed to satisfy its burden of proving the constitutionality of the warrantless search of our client’s home and that our client’s motion to suppress the fruits of that unconstitutional search should have been granted. The Court of Appeals also agreed that the admission at trial of the fruits of the unconstitutional search was not harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. The Court therefore vacated our client’s conviction.
