Judge OKs evidence from Rodgers Forge couple?s home

Published September 12, 2008 4:00am ET



A Baltimore County judge on Thursday set aside his “misgivings” about a broad search warrant and will permit at trial evidence collected from the home of a Rodgers Forge couple accused of starving their toddler to death.

Baltimore County Circuit Judge Timothy Martin dismissed complaints from attorneys for John and Susan Griffin that a search warrant used to seize items from their home was too generic. The warrant, signed by another county judge, allowed police to search the home for “any and all bloody clothing, any and all bloody items, any and all items that may lead to motive and any and all items that could reveal evidence of negligence.”

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