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Parties Involved:
Terry Dale Ray
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

 Plaintiff - Appellee,

v.

TERRY DALE RAY, 

 Defendant - Appellant.

No. 18-6227

(D.C. No. 5:17-CR-00146-R-1)

(W.D. Okla.)

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ORDER AND JUDGMENT*

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Before BRISCOE, McHUGH, and CARSON, Circuit Judges.

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Law enforcement officers questioned Defendant Terry Ray following his 

roadside arrest without the benefit of Miranda warnings.

1

 Defendant’s responses

alerted the deputies to contraband in Defendant’s vehicle and elsewhere. Despite the 

lack of Miranda warnings, the government contends that Defendant voluntarily made 

his statements to the deputies. Defendant, on the other hand, contends that his 

 * This order and judgment is not binding precedent, except under the doctrines 

of law of the case, res judicata, and collateral estoppel. It may be cited, however, for 

its persuasive value consistent with Fed. R. App. P. 32.1 and 10th Cir. R. 32.1.

1 Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 444 (1966) (holding that law enforcement 

officers must warn an individual of certain constitutional rights and the consequences 

of waiving those rights prior to conducting a custodial interrogation).

FILED

United States Court of Appeals

Tenth Circuit

January 13, 2020

Christopher M. Wolpert

Clerk of Court

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roadside statements were the product of police coercion, thus rendering evidence 

recovered pursuant to those statements, and later statements, inadmissible.

Additionally, law enforcement obtained a warrant to search Defendant’s 

residence based on an affidavit that contained misstatements. Law enforcement 

uncovered additional contraband in the execution of the warrant. The government 

contends that any misstatements in the affidavit were accidental and immaterial. 

Defendant, on the other hand, contends that the misstatements rendered the warrant 

invalid and the resulting evidence inadmissible. The district court denied 

Defendant’s motions to suppress on all relevant grounds. Our jurisdiction arises

pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We affirm. 

I.

Custer County (Oklahoma) Deputy Dylan King arrested Defendant for a traffic 

violation.2

 While searching Defendant, Deputy King discovered methamphetamine. 

Deputy King asked Defendant whether he had any other contraband and Defendant

replied that he did in his vehicle. After Defendant realized he was going to jail, he

cried and made suicidal comments. Deputy King handcuffed Defendant, placed 

Defendant in his patrol vehicle, and started an inventory search of Defendant’s 

vehicle. 

Custer County Deputy Quinton Short soon arrived to assist Deputy King. 

Deputy Short counseled Defendant and assisted with the inventory search of 

 2 Body camera footage on file with the Court captured the entire interaction. 

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Defendant’s vehicle, repeatedly returning to the patrol vehicle to ask Defendant about 

the presence of contraband. When Deputy Short asked Defendant what else was in 

the vehicle, Defendant hesitantly admitted that he had a blasting cap (an explosive) in 

the vehicle. Deputy Short recovered the blasting cap from Defendant’s vehicle. At 

no time during this roadside encounter did either deputy issue Miranda warnings to 

Defendant. 

Defendant also told Deputy Short that, although he had only one blasting cap 

in the vehicle, he had a lot more at another, undisclosed location. Deputy Short 

relayed to Deputy King and others that Defendant said he had more blasting caps at 

his house. Upon referring the case to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and 

Explosives (“ATF”), Deputy King repeated Deputy Short’s misstatement to ATF 

Special Agent Brenden Taylor. 

Shortly thereafter, Special Agent Taylor and a colleague twice interviewed 

Defendant at the Custer County Jail. Each time, the ATF agents read Defendant 

Miranda warnings and Defendant signed a waiver of those rights prior to questioning. 

Defendant admitted that he had one hundred or so blasting caps, but refused to 

disclose their specific location. Defendant also admitted using a blasting cap in his 

yard, but suggested the blasting caps were not at his house because he did not own 

that house. After the first interview, the agents observed evidence of the use of a 

blasting cap outside Defendant’s residence. There, the agents also met Heath Justice, 

a family friend of Defendant. The next day, Justice informed law enforcement that 

Defendant placed a recorded call to him from jail asking Justice to retrieve an item 

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law enforcement was looking for from the couch in Defendant’s residence. Special 

Agent Taylor then obtained a warrant to search the residence. Upon execution of the 

warrant, agents discovered three boxes of blasting caps. 

A grand jury indicted Defendant with being a felon in possession of explosives 

in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 842(i)(1), as well as an unrelated offense. Defendant filed 

two motions to suppress: one to suppress evidence from his roadside encounter with 

the deputies and his subsequent statements to the ATF agents, and a second to 

exclude evidence recovered pursuant to the search warrant. The district court denied 

the motions, except as to Defendant’s unwarned statements to the deputies. 

Thereafter, Defendant pleaded guilty to a Superseding Information charging him with 

being a felon in possession of a destructive device in violation of 18 U.S.C. 

§ 922(g)(1). The district court sentenced him to 108 months’ imprisonment. 

Defendant appealed the denials of his motions. 

II.

Defendant contends the district court erred in denying his motions to suppress 

the physical fruit of his unwarned statements, his statements made to ATF agents 

while in custody, and evidence discovered pursuant to a search warrant. Specifically, 

Defendant argues that he did not voluntarily make his statements to either the 

deputies or ATF agents. Defendant also argues that law enforcement obtained a 

search warrant based on materially false information.

“When reviewing an order granting or denying a motion to suppress, we accept 

the district court’s factual findings unless clearly erroneous, and view the evidence in 

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the light most favorable to the district court’s findings.” United States v. Elliott, 107

F.3d 810, 813 (10th Cir. 1997). We review de novo “the ultimate issue of whether a 

statement was voluntary” under the Fifth Amendment. United States v. Pettigrew, 

468 F.3d 626, 633 (10th Cir. 2006) (citation omitted). We likewise review de novo 

the reasonableness of a search warrant under the Fourth Amendment. United States 

v. Kennedy, 131 F.3d 1371, 1375 (10th Cir. 1997). Our review grants particular 

deference to the district court’s determinations “regarding the truth or falsity of 

statements in the affidavit and regarding the intentional or reckless character of such 

falsehoods.” United States v. Campbell, 603 F.3d 1218, 1228 (10th Cir. 2010).

A.

The Self-Incrimination Clause of the Fifth Amendment states that no person 

“shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself.” U.S. 

Const. Amend. V. The Supreme Court has interpreted this clause to provide a 

“privilege against self-incrimination during custodial interrogation.” Miranda, 384 

U.S. at 490; see also United States v. Patane, 542 U.S. 630, 636 (2004) (explaining 

that the Supreme Court created the Miranda rule as “a prophylactic employed to 

protect against violations of the Self-Incrimination Clause”). “The SelfIncrimination Clause, however, is not implicated by the admission into evidence of 

the physical fruit of a voluntary statement.” Patane, 542 U.S. at 636. Accordingly, 

the failure to provide a suspect with Miranda warnings does not require suppression 

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of the physical fruit of a “suspect’s unwarned but voluntary statements.” Id. at 634 

(requiring suppression of only the physical fruit of coerced statements (id. at 644)).3

We have routinely applied this principle to affirm the admission of “physical 

evidence seized as a result of a Miranda violation.” See, e.g., United States v. 

Pettigrew, 468 F.3d 626, 635 (10th Cir. 2006) (also observing that the Supreme Court 

“recognized that custodial statements made prior to the delivery of Miranda warnings 

do not necessitate exclusion of any subsequent confession”). Although “a Miranda

violation raises a presumption of coercion,” Patane, 542 U.S. at 646, the test is 

“whether a [suspect’s] will was overborne by the circumstances surrounding the 

giving of a confession,” Dickerson v. United States, 530 U.S. 428, 434 (2000)

(internal quotation marks and citation omitted). See also Colorado v. Connelly, 479 

U.S. 157, 167 (1986) (concluding “that coercive police activity is a necessary 

predicate to the finding that a confession is not voluntary” (internal quotation marks 

omitted)). The test, based upon the totality of the circumstances, considers “both the 

characteristics of the accused and the details of the interrogation.” United States v. 

Toles, 297 F.3d 959, 966 (10th Cir. 2002). Relevant factors can include: “(1) the 

age, intelligence, and education of the defendant; (2) the length of detention; (3) the 

length and nature of the questioning; (4) whether the defendant was advised of his 

 3 Defendant asserts that Patane was wrongly decided and advances the 

argument so as to preserve it. Of course, we cannot overrule a Supreme Court 

opinion, and will not attempt to do so here. See, e.g., Burrell v. Armijo, 456 F.3d 

1159, 1171 n.9 (10th Cir. 2006).

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constitutional rights; and (5) whether the defendant was subjected to physical 

punishment.” Id. 

Here, Defendant contends that the admission of the blasting cap recovered 

from his vehicle violates his Fifth Amendment rights. Specifically, Defendant 

contends that the deputies physically and psychologically coerced him into making 

involuntary statements about the blasting caps. Although the district court 

suppressed Defendant’s unwarned statements about the blasting caps obtained in 

violation of Miranda, it concluded that Defendant made these statements voluntarily 

and, therefore, declined to suppress the actual blasting cap found in his vehicle. We 

agree with the district court.

First, the deputies did not physically coerce Defendant into disclosing the 

blasting cap in his vehicle. Supreme Court and Tenth Circuit precedent establishes 

that while “arresting and handcuffing are coercive acts,” the statements “of a 

handcuffed arrestee may well be voluntary,” even in the absence of Miranda

warnings. See United States v. Silva-Arzeta, 602 F.3d 1208, 1215 (10th Cir. 2010); 

see also United States v. Watson, 423 U.S. 411, 424 (1976) (observing that “the fact 

of custody alone has never been enough in itself to demonstrate a coerced 

confession”). Indeed, the proper inquiry centers on whether an arrestee suffered 

“physical mistreatment, use of violence or threats of violence,” or similar intrusions 

on his person. United States v. Dozal, 173 F.3d 787, 796 (10th Cir. 1999).

In this case, Defendant made his incriminating statements while handcuffed 

inside a patrol vehicle. See Silva-Arzeta, 602 F.3d at 1215. However, neither deputy 

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physically mistreated, threatened, or otherwise contacted Defendant in any 

impermissible way. See Dozal, 173 F.3d at 796. Instead, the deputies acted in a 

restrained manner towards Defendant and did not draw their weapons at any time. 

See Silva-Arzeta, 602 F.3d at 1215 (10th Cir. 2010) (following case law “finding 

consent to be voluntary when guns were holstered before request to search”). 

Accordingly, the deputies’ lack of physical coercion weighs in favor of the 

conclusion that Defendant made his roadside statements voluntarily. 

Likewise, the deputies did not coerce Defendant’s statements through nonphysical means. In considering the characteristics of a defendant, his “diminished 

mental state is only relevant to the voluntariness inquiry if it made mental or physical 

coercion by the police more effective.” United States v. Guerro, 983 F.2d 1001, 1004 

(10th Cir. 1993). “[T]o find a statement involuntary, the police must somehow 

overreach by exploiting a weakness or condition known to exist.” Id. (emphasis 

added). The Fifth Amendment does not “protect a defendant from his own 

compulsions or internally-applied pressures which are not the product of police 

action.” Id. Indeed, if law enforcement is reasonably unaware of a defendant’s 

mental vulnerabilities, law enforcement cannot be responsible for exploiting them. 

See Connelly, 479 U.S. at 164 (reasoning that a “mental condition, by itself and apart 

from its relation to official coercion, should [n]ever dispose of the inquiry into 

constitutional ‘voluntariness’”). 

Here, Defendant’s mental health history and emotional reaction to his arrest

cannot alone demonstrate that the deputies took advantage of his mental state. See

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id. Even though Deputy Short knew of Defendant, and Defendant had received 

mental health treatment in the past, Defendant identifies no evidence that Deputy 

Short exploited Defendant’s mental health status.

4

 See Guerro, 983 F.2d at 1004. 

Although Defendant made suicidal comments upon realizing he was under arrest, he

concedes that Deputy Short first “counseled him in a[n] amicable conversation” 

before questioning him about contraband. As a result, Defendant appeared composed 

when Deputy Short questioned him about contraband in his vehicle. See United 

States v. Lamy, 521 F.3d 1257, 1262 (10th Cir. 2008) (reasoning that evidence a 

person “was capable of understanding the agents’ questions” indicated that he was 

also capable of “assessing the risks of answering or declining to answer those 

questions” voluntarily). Deputy Short’s body camera footage further confirms that 

he did not press Defendant about his mental health, but rather focused his brief 

inquiries on the presence and location of contraband—a topic wholly divorced from 

Defendant’s mental health status. Thus, the record indicates that the deputies did not 

take “unfair advantage” of Defendant’s mental state or coerce his statements by 

pressing on any expressed vulnerabilities. See Guerro, 983 F.2d at 1004. 

 4 The record indicates that Deputy Short was generally aware of Defendant 

from a previous arrest and once overheard a conversation with other law enforcement 

officers that Defendant had visited Red Rock. Deputy Short was also aware that Red

Rock provides a variety of services, including mental health treatment, drug 

treatment, and counseling. Indeed, Deputy Short knew Defendant had drugs on him 

before he questioned Defendant. The record does not indicate, however, that Deputy 

Short was aware of specific diagnosis or treatment information, or that any such

information influenced how he questioned Defendant about contraband.

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Accordingly, the deputies’ lack of psychological coercion also weighs in favor of the 

conclusion that Defendant made his roadside statements voluntarily.

Moreover, the limited and conversational nature of the interaction weigh in 

favor of the voluntariness of Defendant’s statements. See Toles, 297 F.3d at 966. 

After placing Defendant under arrest, the deputies only spoke with him in short 

increments. See Supp. ROA Vol. I. (Deputy Short’s body camera footage) at 1:20–

8:22 (counseling Defendant), 9:30–10:00 (inquiring about contraband), 11:05–11:55 

(inquiring about the blasting cap). Deputy Short solicited the incriminating 

statements about ten minutes after he arrived on the scene, and Defendant’s roadside 

detention lasted about forty minutes from when Deputy King first stopped Defendant. 

See Lamy, 521 F.3d at 1262 (considering an interview that “lasted less than an hour” 

to be short in length). Although two deputies were present for most of the encounter, 

only one deputy spoke to Defendant at a time. See Silva-Arzeta, 602 F.3d at 1215 

(observing that the presence of several officers is “unlikely to have produced much of 

a coercive effect” because only one officer spoke to the subject). The deputies’ tone 

and demeanor were also conversational throughout the encounter. See Lamy, 521 

F.3d at 1262 (reasoning that the “nonthreatening nature of questioning” limits the 

coercive effects of a law enforcement encounter). Altogether, the deputies’ nonthreatening approach, conversational tone, and short duration of conversation limit 

the coerciveness of the interaction and, therefore, demonstrate the voluntariness of 

Defendant’s statements.

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To be sure, the Supreme Court has generally required much more aggressive 

law enforcement tactics to support a determination of unconstitutional coercion. See

Connelly, 479 U.S. at 165 (observing that undue police coercion includes the 

administration of “a drug with truth-serum properties” or subjecting a suspect to an 

“eight- to nine- hour sustained interrogation”). Thus, we conclude that Defendant 

made his roadside statements voluntarily, even though the statements themselves 

were inadmissible in the absence of Miranda warnings. Accordingly, the district 

court correctly concluded the physical evidence recovered pursuant to Defendant’s 

inadmissible statements was admissible under Patane.

B.

We next consider whether Defendant’s later statements to ATF agents at the 

Custer County Jail were admissible. Defendant contends that he remained under the 

influence of police coercion from his unwarned roadside encounter, so any 

subsequent statements to the agents are likewise the product of coercion. The district 

court found that Defendant participated freely in the county jail interviews and 

declined to suppress Defendant’s statements therefrom. We agree with the district 

court for two reasons: (1) the deputies did not subject Defendant to undue police 

coercion during his roadside encounter, see supra Part II(A), and (2) even if they had, 

coerciveness—as a matter of Supreme Court precedent—does not generally carry 

over to a later, unrelated interview, see Oregon v. Elstad, 470 U.S. 298, 313 (1985).

Preliminarily, we reject the initial premise of Defendant’s argument by 

concluding that Defendant made his roadside statements voluntarily, rather than as a 

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product of coercion. See supra Part II(A). Nevertheless, the Supreme Court has held

that even where Miranda requires a court to suppress an unwarned statement, “the 

admissibility of any subsequent statement should turn . . . solely on whether it is 

knowingly and voluntarily made.” Elstad, 470 U.S. at 309. Moreover, “absent 

deliberately coercive or improper tactics in obtaining the initial statement, the mere 

fact that a suspect has made an unwarned admission does not warrant a presumption 

of compulsion.” Id. at 314. Therefore, a “subsequent administration of Miranda

warnings to a suspect who has given a voluntary but unwarned statement ordinarily 

should suffice to remove the conditions that precluded admission of the earlier 

statement.” Id.

In this case, Defendant made unwarned but voluntary statements to the 

deputies. See supra Part II(A). Defendant then provided additional statements to 

ATF agents after the agents read Defendant Miranda warnings and Defendant signed 

a waiver of those rights. Defendant does not identify any actions by the ATF agents 

that independently coerced him into waiving his Miranda rights or otherwise 

involuntarily speaking to them. Instead, Defendant’s coercion argument as to these 

statements relies exclusively on the effects of his unwarned, roadside encounter—an 

argument that the Supreme Court expressly rejected as a basis to suppress 

subsequent, warned statements. See United States v. Carrizales-Toledo, 454 F.3d 

1142, 1149 (10th Cir. 2006) (recognizing that the Supreme Court “rejected the theory 

that the initial, unwarned statement creates a ‘lingering compulsion’ based on ‘the 

psychological impact of the suspect’s conviction that he has let the cat out of the bag 

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and, in so doing, has sealed his own fate’” (quoting Elstad, 470 U.S. at 311 (1985)). 

Accordingly, Defendant’s prior unwarned statement to the deputies did not taint his 

later, voluntary statements to ATF agents. Thus, we conclude that Defendant’s later 

statements to ATF agents at the Custer County Jail were admissible.

C.

We finally consider whether evidence—more blasting caps—that agents 

recovered from Defendant’s home pursuant to a search warrant was admissible. 

Defendant contends that the ATF agents obtained the additional blasting caps in 

violation of his Fourth Amendment rights because the search warrant was based on

materially false information. Specifically, Defendant challenges two statements in 

Special Agent Taylor’s search warrant affidavit: (1) Defendant told deputies that he 

had more blasting caps “at his residence” after his roadside arrest; and (2) Defendant 

told the agents that he was keeping blasting caps “in a secret location at the subject 

residence” during his April 3 interview. The district court declined to excise the 

challenged statements from the search warrant affidavit and, therefore, declined to 

suppress evidence recovered from the subsequent search of Defendant’s residence. 

We again agree with the district court. 

The Fourth Amendment protects the right of the people to be secure in their 

houses and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures. U.S. Const. Amend. 

IV. The text requires that the issuance of a search warrant be based upon probable 

cause. Id.; Illinois v. Gates, 462 U.S. 213, 231 (1983). We exclude evidence 

discovered pursuant to a search warrant when: (1) “a defendant proves by a 

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preponderance of the evidence the affiant knowingly or recklessly included false 

statements in or omitted material information from an affidavit in support of a search 

warrant;” and (2) “after excising such false statements and considering such material 

omissions . . . [we conclude] the corrected affidavit does not support a finding of 

probable cause.” Campbell, 603 F.3d at 1228 (alterations in original) (internal 

quotation marks and citation omitted).

Concerning the first challenged statement, Defendant undisputedly did not tell 

Deputy Short that he had more blasting caps “at his residence.” Instead, the record 

confirms that Defendant said he only had one blasting cap in his vehicle, but had “a 

lot more than that” without disclosing a location. Although Defendant does not argue

that Deputy Short knowingly misquoted Defendant, he contends that Deputy Short 

and those who relied on his hearsay statement acted recklessly. Specifically, 

Defendant asserts that Deputy Short was reckless in misquoting Defendant and 

Special Agent Taylor was likewise reckless in failing to confirm the quote with 

Deputy Short’s body camera recording of the interaction. Defendant, however, fails 

to carry his burden of demonstrating that Special Agent Taylor knowingly or 

recklessly included false statements in his search warrant affidavit because we 

conclude the record does not establish: (1) that Deputy Short was reckless in 

misquoting or conveying Defendant’s statement, or (2) that Special Agent Taylor was 

reckless in relying on that information. See Campbell, 603 F.3d at 1228.

First, the hasty nature of Deputy Short’s roadside conversation with Defendant

suggests that Deputy Short’s original misstatement was accidental. See Franks v. 

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Delaware, 438 U.S. 154, 165 (1978) (recognizing that affiants must often rely upon 

hearsay or other information “that sometimes must be garnered hastily,” so we 

consider information to be truthful if “the information put forth is believed or 

appropriately accepted by the affiant as true”). Within seconds of hearing 

Defendant’s statement about additional blasting caps, Deputy Short told Deputy King 

that Defendant said he had “a whole lot more of them at his house.” See Christopher 

B. Mueller & Laird C. Kirkpatrick, 4 Fed. Evid. § 8:67 (4th ed. June 2019 Update) 

(evidence law recognizes that “a small delay” between observation and retelling 

makes a statement particularly trustworthy because such a delay “is not enough to 

allow reflection”). Deputy Short consistently repeated this misstatement to other law 

enforcement personnel, who conveyed the misstatement to Special Agent Taylor. 

Presumably, in light of Deputy Short’s immediate and consistent retelling of 

the misstatement, Defendant does not dispute whether Deputy Short or Special Agent 

Taylor believed the misstatement to be true. See Franks, 438 U.S. at 165. Indeed, 

the conveyance of incorrect information appeared to be, at most, the product of 

negligence, which is insufficient to justify the exclusion of evidence. See Campbell, 

603 F.3d at 1228 (recognizing that a defendant must do more than identify “the 

existence of the [misstatements] themselves” to demonstrate “an intent to mislead or 

recklessness on the part of the officers” (id. at 1229)). Thus, we conclude Deputy 

Short’s misstatement does not provide a valid basis to excise the first challenged 

statement from the search warrant affidavit because the record does not show Deputy 

Short intentionally or recklessly misquoted Defendant. Id.

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Next, Special Agent Taylor’s inclusion of Deputy Short’s misstatement in the 

search warrant affidavit likewise does not rise to the level of recklessness. As a 

matter of course, affiants routinely rely on information relayed to them from other 

law enforcement personnel. See, e.g., United States v. Tisdale, 248 F.3d 964, 974 

(10th Cir. 2001) (observing that an affiant’s inclusion of assumed but unverified 

information relayed to him by another officer was “reasonable”). Defendant asserts 

that Special Agent Taylor’s failure to check Deputy Short’s body camera footage 

before including a representation in an affidavit constitutes recklessness, but he does 

not identify any authority to support that proposition. Conversely, the Supreme 

Court has recognized that the rule for exclusion “leaves a broad field where . . . 

police have been merely negligent in checking or recording the facts relevant to a 

probable-cause determination.” Franks, 438 U.S. at 170. Deputy King repeated 

Deputy Short’s misstatement to Special Agent Taylor, which both deputies’ police 

reports contained. Thus, Special Agent Taylor was not reckless in relying on 

information relayed to him from other law enforcement sources.

Concerning the second challenged statement, Defendant asserts that he did not 

actually tell ATF agents that he had blasting caps at his residence during his 

interview. The government counters that Defendant admitted using a blasting cap at 

his residence and engaged in a game of semantics, which Special Agent Taylor 

reasonably interpreted as an admission that the additional blasting caps were at his 

residence. Specifically, Defendant suggested that the agents would not find the 

blasting caps in a search of his house because the subject residence was “not my

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house.” Special Agent Taylor interpreted this exchange as a game of semantics 

regarding who owned the residence at which Defendant lived, rather than a denial 

that the blasting caps were in Defendant’s residence. 

Although Special Agent Taylor exercised some measure of interpretation to 

construe Defendant’s interview statements to mean that the blasting caps were at his 

residence, his conclusion was not necessarily knowingly false or reckless. See

Campbell, 603 F.3d at 1229 (10th Cir. 2010) (“Where there are two permissible 

views of the evidence, the factfinder’s choice between them cannot be clearly 

erroneous.”). Rather, Special Agent Taylor reasonably believed that Defendant 

previously told the deputies the blasting caps were at his residence and saw evidence 

of the use of a blasting cap at his residence, so his subsequent belief that Defendant 

was again referring to his residence during the interview was likewise reasonable. 

See Franks, 438 U.S. at 165. Additionally, Defendant called Justice the day after he 

spoke with Special Agent Taylor to ask Justice to retrieve an item law enforcement 

was looking for—the blasting caps—from the couch of his residence. This 

uncontested information, which Special Agent Taylor separately included in his 

affidavit, further corroborated Special Agent Taylor’s belief that Defendant knew he 

was discussing blasting caps at his residence during the interview. Thus, we 

conclude that the district court correctly declined to excise either challenged 

statement from the search warrant affidavit. Accordingly, the blasting caps 

recovered from Defendant’s residence pursuant to the execution of a valid search 

warrant were also admissible. 

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III.

For the foregoing reasons, we AFFIRM the district court’s orders denying, in 

pertinent part, Defendant’s motions to suppress.

Entered for the Court

Joel M. Carson III

Circuit Judge

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