Opinion ID: 4164103
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Heading: Good‐Faith Exception

Text: The government argues that the good‐faith exception would apply as an alternative ground for denying Wenzel’s motion to suppress. See United States v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897, 926 (1984). The magistrate judge agreed that the exception would apply and the district court adopted this recommendation. Because we hold that the warrant was not unconstitutional, we need not reach the issue of whether the good‐faith excep‐ tion would apply. We note, however, that Wenzel did not challenge this alternate ruling on appeal, and he advanced no arguments that the state‐court judge “abandoned his de‐ tached and neutral role” when he issued the warrant, or that “the officers were dishonest or reckless in preparing their af‐ fidavit or could not have harbored an objectively reasonable belief in the existence of probable cause.” Id.