Lawyers representing capital-murder defendant Darnell Jones have moved to suppress evidence collected at his East Toledo home pursuant to two search warrants they say were ill-founded.

Police affidavits filed to secure the warrants lacked sufficient probable cause to support the judge’s approvals, the motions state, and thus all evidence and information obtained as a result — including indirect results obtained later on — should be suppressed, the motions filed by lawyers David Klucas, Ann Baronas, and Morgan Isenberg state.

The two affidavits “merely contain speculative, conclusory opinions from the affiant, but no actual facts providing probable cause to believe that these items were relevant to a crime,” the defense lawyers wrote in both motions to suppress.

The two searches were con

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