- Sep 29, 2020
Court Rules Claims Over Search of Building's Third Floor Are Viable Under 'Bivens'
Powell and his family live on the first floor of Powell's three-story Bronx apartment building. Apartments on the building's two upper floors are rented for residential use. In April 2018 law enforcement officers executing a warrant to search the building's first two floors found no evidence of criminality. NYPD detective Santos and others then allegedly exceeded the warrant's scope to search the building's third floor, recovering several kilograms of cocaine, w