Court Opinion

ID: 9870101
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-26 19:48:20.628879+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:45:41.941289
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KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judge,
dissenting.
DISSENT
I respectfully disagree with my colleagues that the evidence from the trash pull did not establish probable cause. In the trash can, officers found several marijuana roaches, vacuum-sealed baggies containing ’ marijuana residue, and mail addressed to the defendant. The address on the mail was the address of the house later searched, which is reason enough to think the roaches and baggies came from that same house. Taken together, these facts created a fair probability that the officers would find contraband or evidence of a drug crime in the house. See United States v. Lawrence, 308 F.3d 623, 627 (6th Cir. 2002). In Laiwence, we held that the officers’ discovery of plastic bags containing cocaine residue in the defendant’s trash was enough to establish probable cause, even if the tip that triggered the trash pull should have been excised from the warrant affidavit. Id. at 626, 627. We should find probable cause here as well. I would therefore affirm the district court’s order denying the defendant’s motion to suppress.