{"id":38648,"date":"2019-07-20T07:59:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T12:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=38648"},"modified":"2019-07-20T11:38:32","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T16:38:32","slug":"ca4-denial-of-cross-examination-into-alleged-falsity-in-sw-affidavit-where-the-product-was-never-used-was-irrelevant-or-harmless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=38648","title":{"rendered":"CA4: Denial of cross examination into alleged falsity in SW affidavit where the product was never used was irrelevant or harmless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The district court didn\u2019t err in holding cross-examination about alleged falsities in a search warrant affidavit where the product of the search was never admitted at trial. Also, in light of all the proof, it was harmless at best. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca4.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/196382.U.pdf\">United States v. Williams<\/a>, 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 21134 (4th Cir. July 17, 2019).<\/p>\n<p>Defense counsel couldn\u2019t be ineffective for not presenting things not yet known about the case at the time of the hearing. \u201cEven if there were prejudice, the record suggests that counsel advocated for Petitioner at a level above which is objectively reasonable.\u201d Dearborn v. United States, 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 118766 (N.D. Ill. July 17, 2019).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The district court didn\u2019t err in holding cross-examination about alleged falsities in a search warrant affidavit where the product of the search was never admitted at trial. Also, in light of all the proof, it was harmless at best. United &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=38648\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ineffective-assistance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38648","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38648"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38657,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38648\/revisions\/38657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}