Court Opinion

ID: 9483859
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 09:33:08.223343+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:49:52.177356
License: Public Domain

SETH, Circuit Judge,
dissenting:
I cannot agree with the majority opinion in this appeal. Thus, as I discussed in my dissent in United States v. Brown, 984 F.2d 1074 (10th Cir.), the officers were not executing a valid warrant when they detected the methamphetamine laboratory. The warrant was based on a prior warrant which contained language and was executed in a manner that converted it to a general warrant. Further, the warrant at issue here contained similar language. Both warrants were overbroad and thus did not conform to the Fourth Amendment’s particularity requirement. For the reasons stated in my dissent in Brown, I would suppress the evidence and reverse the conviction. Accordingly, I dissent.