Opinion ID: 662298
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Omissions from Affidavit

Text: 6 The district court properly denied Thompson's request for a Franks hearing. To obtain such a hearing, a defendant must make a substantial preliminary showing that 1) the affiant intentionally or recklessly omitted facts required to prevent technically true statements in the affidavit from being misleading. U.S. v. Stanert, 762 F.2d 775, 781 (9th Cir.1985), and 2) the affidavit purged of its falsities would not be sufficient to support a finding of probable cause. Id. at 780. The affidavit would still have established probable cause if it included the fact that the handwriting on the two packages did not match Thompson's, that agents never saw Thompson with William Thomas, or that Thompson was not the person shown in the picture on the identification card used by William Thomas. The government never claimed Thompson sent the packages. There was plenty of evidence that Thompson and Thomas, if not the same individual, were associated with each other. This association and Thompson's suspicious activities, by themselves, established probable cause.