{"id":3623,"date":"2010-03-23T08:27:49","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T00:58:54","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-12T18:00:24","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=3623","title":{"rendered":"CA9: Police have no duty to put all facts in affidavit for search warrant; the question is probable cause, not proof of guilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a case involving the arrest of persons actually innocent, the police failure to include every known fact in an arrest affidavit did not show that they made a misstatement that misled the magistrate. Also, a prosecutor reviewed the papers before filing. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca9.uscourts.gov\/datastore\/opinions\/2009\/12\/09\/08-15732.pdf\">Ewing v. City of Stockton<\/a>, 588 F.3d 1218 (9th Cir. 2009)*:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Ewings contend that the officers omitted other information casting doubt on Shirk&#8217;s identification of Heather. But &#8220;[t]he government need not include all of the information in its possession to obtain a search warrant &#8230;. The omission of facts rises to the level of misrepresentation only if the omitted facts &#8216;cast doubt on the existence of probable cause.'&#8221; United States v. Johns, 948 F.2d 599, 606-07 (9th Cir. 1991) (quoting United States v. Dennis, 625 F.2d 782, 791 (8th Cir. 1980)); see also United States v. Streich, 759 F.2d 579, 586 (7th Cir. 1985) (noting that Illinois v. Gates does not require officers to apprise a judicial officer of everything); United States v. Luciano, 785 F. Supp. 878, 881 (D. Mont. 1991) (&#8220;Certainly, an investigating officer cannot be expected to include the sum total of all of his investigation in the affidavit supporting a search warrant.&#8221;). None of the details appellants cite cast doubt on the existence of probable cause. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=3623\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}