Court Opinion

ID: 9476589
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 06:00:03.876317+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:45:24.247560
License: Public Domain

MERRILL, Circuit Judge,
concurring in part and dissenting in part:
Offield’s affidavit is subject to criticism. If purged of all the alleged misstatements and omissions, however, it still provided probable cause to search Dozier’s house. Mejia’s statements when he was arrested adequately linked Dozier to the crime and provided good cause to believe that there was evidence in his home. Although Mejia’s statements were six months old when the warrant issued, they were not impermissibly stale because marijuana cultivation is obviously a long-term project.
However, I dissent from the court’s action respecting the warrant. As conceded by the government, the warrant is clearly overbroad in authorizing the seizure of all written records, and the good faith exception cannot save the seizure under that provision. The documentary evidence should be suppressed.
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