Rogers v. Commonwealth
Annotate this CaseWilliam Louis Rogers was convicted, following a jury trial, of two counts of trafficking in a controlled substance and one count of possessing a controlled substance. The charges for which Rogers was indicted - three counts of trafficking - arose after he twice allegedly sold small amounts of cocaine to a confidential informant and after police, acting pursuant to a search warrant, found more cocaine and drug paraphernalia secreted in his garage. The Supreme Court affirmed the convictions and sentence, holding that the trial court did not err (1) by denying Rogers' motion to suppress the garage evidence as the fruit of an illegal search; (2) by refusing to sever the trafficking charge based on the garage evidence from those based on the alleged sales to the confidential informant; and (3) by limiting Rogers' cross-examination of a forensic chemist, who tested various seized items for the presence of cocaine.
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