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- Title: State Idaho v. John Edward Burke
- Author : Court of Appeals of Idaho No. 15565
- Release Date : January 31, 1986
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 65 KB
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John Edward Burke stands convicted of possessing marijuana with intent to deliver. On appeal he contends that the marijuana and other related evidence should have been suppressed because they were obtained, directly or indirectly, through a search and a police interrogation in Canada that did not meet American constitutional standards. He also attacks the legality of searches conducted in Idaho. Moreover, he raises a host of challenges to the fairness of his trial, urging that the trial was tainted by newspaper publicity, by admission of hearsay evidence, by denial of his right to confront an adverse witness, by failure to instruct the jury on a lesser crime of attempted possession, by prosecutorial misconduct, and by denial of a motion for judgment of acquittal. For reasons explained below, we reject each of these arguments and affirm the judgment of conviction. I