Court Opinion

ID: 9495208
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 15:57:25.468431+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:56:53.409078
License: Public Domain

KING, Chief Judge,
specially concurring:
With one small exception, I concur fully in Judge Jones’s excellent opinion for the panel. The exception relates to whether the Government effectively misrepresented Patrick Graham’s credibility to the district judge when the agent said, in his affidavit, that “[sjince his cooperation with the FBI, he has never been known to provide false or misleading information.” The agent provided information (about pending indictments and a pending federal tax and corruption investigation of Graham) to the district judge that would put the judge on notice that Graham was potentially untrustworthy. Nevertheless, on the basis of Brown’s offer of proof, the district judge may not have been fully advised (as he should have been) of what may have been the Government’s well-founded conviction that Graham was, in fact, untrustworthy. But, as Judge Jones has clearly estab*407lished, even if we assume arguendo that the Government was not truthful or sufficiently forthcoming on the matter of Graham’s lack of trustworthiness and we set aside all the allegations that are not independently corroborated, the affidavit still contains enough evidence to establish probable cause to believe that a crime was being committed.