UNITED STATES
v.
MATHES ET AL.
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District court denied motions to certify commissioner rulings on search warrant motions to quash, holding that the District Judge lacks power to review such commissioner determinations and that the proper procedure is governed by Supreme Court precedent, not the Espionage Act.
A District Judge lacks power to review and revise a United States commissioner's ruling on motions to quash search warrants through certification.
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In these causes it is sought to have the cases certified by the United States commissioner to the District Judge, to have his ruling upon the motions to quash the search warrants reviewed and revised by this court. While Judge Hand, in U. S. v. Casino, 286 F. 976, holds that ihe District Judge has power to do this, apparently, I am not satisfied to follow that decision. Circuit Judge Hough, sitting in the District Court in the ease of U. S. v. Maresca et al., 266 F. 713, had the question of procedure before him, and reached a conclusion contrary to that reached by Judge Hand, and I am more impressed by Judge Hough’s discussion of the question.
The motions for an order requiring the commissioner to certify his action on the motion to quash will therefore be denied in each of these cases. It seems to me that the procedure in matters where the defendant desires the court to decide whether seized property should be returned, or the evidence obtained by unlawful searches or seizures should be suppressed, is pointed out by the decisions of the Supreme Court.
Section 17, title 11 (40 U. S. Stats. at Large, p. 230), of the Espionage Aet (Comp. St. 1918, Comp. St. Ann. Supp. 1919, §§ 10496(4a~10496(4v), which is looked to by the defendants to support their contention, has no application to the question raised on this motion. The validity of the search warrants is not considered.