SAN FRANCISCO — An area resident was sentenced to 2 years in jail after he tried and didn’t get his gun possession case thrown out since an officer found it whereas frisking his groin space, information present.
Ricky Rollins, 39, pleaded responsible to being a felon in possession of a firearm after U.S. District Decide William Alsup upheld San Francisco police Officer Erika Viola’s search of Rollins’ groin throughout a 2023 search of his dwelling. Police had been investigating an tried homicide and located a pistol hidden in Rollins pants, courtroom information present.
“(Viola) did not undress defendant or move beyond his outer clothing until after she felt something that she suspected to be a weapon,” Alsup wrote in his denial movement. “An officer’s frisk of an adult of the opposite sex is not unreasonable.”
Rollins had argued that Viola violated his rights through the search.
Rollins’ co-defendant, George Washington, was sentenced to 18 months in jail for a similar cost.
Federal prosecutors requested for a 32-month jail sentence, citing Rollins’ legal historical past, together with alleged involvement within the homicide of a lady named Beverly Robinson in 2004. Authorities conceded Rollins wasn’t one of many males who shot Robinson, although.
Rollins was certainly one of 5 alleged members of the Down Under Gang indicted within the mid-2000s for racketeering, a case which included the homicide of Robinson as one of many fees. He ended up pleaded responsible to racketeering and served a 15-year federal jail sentence, prosecutors mentioned in courtroom filings.
In a letter to the courtroom, Rollins mentioned he was taking accountability and desires an opportunity to show he will probably be a “better man, father and son.”
“I have wasted enough time and I don’t want to waste another second,” Rollins wrote. “If giving (sic) the opportunity, I will take the steps needed to rebuild my life the right way.”
