Opinion ID: 531907
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Heading: Information Presented to the Magistrate

Text: 10 Mulder also argues that the search was illegal because the affidavit supporting the request for a search warrant informed the magistrate of the results of the earlier warrantless testing and so prejudiced the magistrate's judgment. Mulder bases this argument on the statement in Murray that it is critical whether information obtained during that [first illegal] entry was presented to the Magistrate and affected his judgment. 108 S.Ct. at 2535 (emphasis added). Mulder assumes that the presence of the first factor--presentation of the information from the first search--automatically implicates the second--the judgment of the magistrate. We have found this assumption to be false. See, e.g., U.S. v. Merriweather, 777 F.2d 503, 506 (9th Cir.1985); United States v. Alexander, 761 F.2d 1294, 1299-1300 (9th Cir.1985). The government did refer to the prior search in the affidavit supporting the search warrant, but it did not rely on that information and asked the magistrate not to consider the prior search in making his decision. 2 Nothing in the record supports Mulder's claim that the information of the prior search did in fact affect the magistrate's decision. 11 AFFIRMED.