[EggsAckley]

No, I did NOT just read the headline; I always read articles to which I reply. I just re-read it for the third time, and it still doesn't make a lot of sense. Bungled justice, I suppose.

[Sabertooth]

Bungled justice, I suppose.

If there was doubt the search which procured the evidence was legal, the risk may have been too great that it might be thrown out, resulting in no conviction at all. Nor does that necessarily reflect anything negative about the police; they may have had no other option but to search in the manner that they did.