Legal Question in Criminal Law in Alaska

Motion to Suppress

What does Opposition to Motion to Suppress mean? Suppress what? Thanks


Asked on 1/05/01, 12:43 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Charles Aspinwall Charles S. Aspinwall, J.D., LLC

Re: Motion to Suppress

A Motion to Suppress usually means to suppress evidence of a crime which has been illegally or improperly seized. That means the Motion is directed at having the evidence excluded from a criminal proceedings.

Opposition to such a Motion obviously means taking a contrary position.

Both are very common in the criminal law.

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Answered on 1/05/01, 8:05 am


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