{"id":45388,"date":"2020-09-17T14:53:55","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T19:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=45388"},"modified":"2020-09-17T14:53:55","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T19:53:55","slug":"ca3-merely-pleading-snitches-are-unreliable-isnt-a-franks-offer-of-proof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=45388","title":{"rendered":"CA3: Merely pleading snitches are unreliable isn&#8217;t a <em>Franks<\/em> offer of proof"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cRodriguez-Colon does not meet this [Franks] requirement. His challenge contains no offer of proof and merely questions the general reliability of confidential sources. For instance, he argued to the District Court that if granted a hearing, &#8220;[i]t is anticipated that the informants will tell the defense that they did not buy controlled substances from Mr. Colon from within his residence.&#8221; (App. at 40.) Neither Rodriguez-Colon&#8217;s speculation, nor his desire to cross-examine the informants, suffices for a Franks hearing or suppression. So the District Court properly denied Rodriguez-Colon&#8217;s motion without a hearing.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.ca3.uscourts.gov\/opinarch\/193008np.pdf\">United States v. Rodriguez-Colon<\/a>, 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 29450 (3d Cir. Sept. 16, 2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant\u2019s claim of irreconcilable differences between the affidavit for the search warrant here and a later police report doesn\u2019t show a false or misleading statement. He fails in his Franks burden. United States v. Morell-Oneill, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 169171 (D. Mass. Sept. 16, 2020).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cRodriguez-Colon does not meet this [Franks] requirement. His challenge contains no offer of proof and merely questions the general reliability of confidential sources. For instance, he argued to the District Court that if granted a hearing, &#8220;[i]t is anticipated that &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=45388\">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":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-franks-doctrine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45388","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=45388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45389,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45388\/revisions\/45389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}