The Rock Through The Window

Police searching a bank safe deposit box found $100,000 in cash and told the tax authorities, who assessed a man for $100,000 in unpaid taxes and served a notice of levy and seizure on the money. Prosecutors alleged he then plotted to recover it. A confederate rented a new safe deposit box to gain entry to the bank vault. While the confederate was inside, the man hurled a rock through the bank's front window. In the commotion the confederate grabbed the bank's master key and, using it with a duplicate key the man had supplied, carried off the entire seized box. The money was divided, and the man received $80,000. The defence argued that the original police search of the box was unconstitutional and broke state law, so all the evidence flowing from it should have been excluded.