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Dorm Room Search Thrown Out of Court

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November 18, 2010

The Boston Globe reports that Massachusetts' Supreme Judicial Court has thrown out evidence in a drug case garnered from an apparently nonconsensual dorm room search by Boston College police. Hat tip to The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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