Man still in jail after resisting police in investigation

After spending three months in jail following a knife slashing in the motel where he was staying, a Bloomington man's attorney has filed a motion to dismiss the case, citing an unlawful search of his room.\nMatthew Martin, 25, was staying in the Ramada Limited Inn on North Walnut Street in March, when an early morning robbery ended with the motel clerk being beaten, sliced across the neck with a knife and shot while he lay unconscious on the ground.\nPolice responded to the scene and searched Martin's motel room, dumping him out of the bed where he was sleeping and arresting him after he became belligerent. \nThough Martin was never arrested in direct connection with the robbery, because he had just gotten out of jail, he was considered to be violating his probation and was placed in the Monroe County Jail without bond. \nIn June 2005 Martin was jailed after allegedly robbing two men at gunpoint in an apartment on Kirkwood Avenue, and released this February.\nHe is charged with resisting law enforcement and intimidation, police reports show, with a court hearing set for July 21.\nMartin's attorney David Schalk asserts that his client should not be in jail right now at all, as he was arrested after asking the police to leave his room, subsequently revoking the permission the police had been granted by a woman staying in the motel with him.\n"The police in this incident were overly zealous and aggressive in investigating a robbery," Schalk said in the motion. "They ought to apologize to Mr. Martin for dumping him out of his bed, searching his room against his will and taking him to jail."\nIn an interesting plot twist, Chad Luck, the son of retired Bloomington police officer Dexter Luck, allegedly confessed to the crime after members of his family reported him to the police. He later pleaded not guilty to the charges. He is being held on a $100,000 surety bond in the Monroe County Jail under charges of attempted murder and armed robbery resulting in serious bodily injury, according to police reports.\nLuck has a competency hearing set for Aug. 25.