Opinion ID: 1464923
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Alleged misstatements and omissions.

Text: Appellant asserts that DeFew deliberately misled the issuing judge in his affidavit by stating that Appellant had prior drug convictions, whereas he only had two prior convictions, one a felony vehicular offense and the other for promoting contraband in the first degree. Appellant argues that a conviction for promoting contraband is not necessarily a drug conviction. True; but it could be. KRS 520.010(3); KRS 520.050. The record is silent as to the facts of the contraband conviction and Appellant does not assert that the basis for the conviction was other than drug-related. Appellant further claims that DeFew deliberately omitted from the affidavit information that the confidential informant was a drug addict and that he had proffered information against Appellant pursuant to an implied offer of immunity. The only evidence indicating that the informant was a drug addict was his subsequent participation in the Teen Challenge drug rehabilitation program. If the informant was a drug addict at the time he gave his information to DeFew, there is no evidence that DeFew was aware of that fact when he executed the search warrant affidavit. Nor are we cited to any authority that requires such information to be included in a search warrant affidavit. DeFew specifically denied offering the informant a deal in exchange for his information and Appellant offered no proof to the contrary other than Sonny Russell's testimony that, on another occasion, DeFew offered him a deal if he (Russell) would narc Appellant. Appellant thus failed to make a substantial preliminary showing of police misconduct regarding the affidavit to even merit a hearing under Franks v. Delaware, 438 U.S. 154, 98 S.Ct. 2674, 57 L.Ed.2d 667 (1978).