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RI's Supreme Court found that 'reasonable suspicion of criminal activity did not exist' when striking the evidence from the case.

WARWICK — A Superior Court judge on Monday struck evidence in two cases after finding that state troopers violated the alleged suspects’ rights by unconstitutionally converting routine traffic stops into narcotics investigations and warrantless searches.  Judge Daniel A, Procaccini suppressed evidence in two cases involving out-of-state drivers of color traveling along a section of Route 95 identified by law enforcement as a drug-trafficking corridor. In one case, the judge struck 94 poun...