SF police might be sitting on a briefcase full of unknown Jerry Garcia songs

[G_j]

http://m.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/sf-police-might-be-sitting-on-a-briefcase-full-of-unknown-jerry-garcia-songs/Content?oid=2923861

by Joshua Sabatini
March 17, 2015

A briefcase that San Francisco police submitted as evidence during Jerry Garcia's arrest in 1985 contained unknown Grateful Dead songs.

Thirty years ago, a San Francisco officer on patrol in Golden Gate Park noticed a parked BMW on a dead-end street with expired registration tags. Upon further inspection, the cop noticed that a man was sitting in the car — and not just any man. It was rock legend Jerry Garcia.

The officer said at the time that he saw an open briefcase on the passenger’s seat next to Garcia. In it were 23 packets of “brown and white substances,” according to a Jan. 19, 1985 story in

The San Francisco Examiner. Garcia was booked on drug possession charges, and the briefcase was submitted as evidence.

But police likely didn’t give much thought at the time to the fact that there was much more than drug evidence in the briefcase: It also contained a number of Grateful Dead songs Garcia and the band’s songwriter, Robert Hunter, were working on. Although it has been decades since the arrest, the Police Department might still have the briefcase — and if so, several people would love to get their hands on it.

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[peacefreak]

1. Free Jerry!!!

[treestar]

2. So cool

Jerry likely worked that material up later anyway. But it sure could prove interesting.

[Taitertots]

3. How is it legal for police to take property that is unrelated to a crime