Court Opinion

ID: 9479918
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 07:32:55.600531+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:47:22.298418
License: Public Domain

GARWOOD, Circuit Judge, specially
concurring:
I fully concur in Judge Davis’ opinion, which follows the binding precedent of this Circuit. I append this additional writing merely to suggest that this Court reconsider en banc the applicability of Rule 41(a), Fed.R.Crim.P., to a warrant issued by a state court to state officers on their own initiative and application and based on a probable cause showing of a state offense, particularly where the state officers conduct the search in the legitimate furtherance of state law enforcement. In those circumstances, suppression for noncompliance with Rule 41(a)’s “court of record” requirement merely because federal officers, knowing that the warrant did not comply with Rule 41(a), nevertheless participate in the search to an extent which would have rendered it a “federal search” under principles, such as those of Byars v. United States, 273 U.S. 28, 47 S.Ct. 248, 71 L.Ed. 520 (1927), originally designed to guard against evasion of the Fourth Amendment when it did not apply to the states, seems entirely unwarranted.