CA10: Wrong address in SW didn’t invalidate it where the right place was well described and correctly found

The wrong address did not invalidate the warrant where the right place was well described and correctly found. Goss v. Bd. of County Comm’rs, 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 7735 (10th Cir. April 26, 2016):

Addressing the third argument, we conclude that the affidavit’s incorrect reference to 238 Navajo Place—rather than the search warrant’s correct reference to 283 Navajo Place—does not render the search warrant invalid. “A technically wrong address does not invalidate a warrant if it otherwise describes the premises with sufficient particularity so that the police can ascertain and identify the place to be searched.” United States v. Lora-Solano, 330 F.3d 1288, 1293 (10th Cir. 2003). The identical descriptions of how to get to the mobile home and the description of the mobile home itself provided in the search warrant and the affidavit meet this standard.

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