{"id":58200,"date":"2024-07-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=58200"},"modified":"2024-07-06T09:23:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T14:23:15","slug":"the-good-faith-exception-united-states-v-leon-decided-40-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=58200","title":{"rendered":"The good faith exception: <em>United States v. Leon<\/em> decided 40 years ago today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=12950573209015417232&amp;q=u.s.+v.+leon&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=1002\">United&nbsp;States v. Leon<\/a>, 468 U.S. 897, 104 S. Ct. 3405, 82 L. Ed. 2d&nbsp;677 (July 5, 1984).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It made my job easier. It&#8217;s far easier to tell whether an affidavit for search warrant will survive a motion to suppress.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1) This literally happened about a year ago in the Eastern District of Arkansas, and I hate to admit it: &#8220;Your honor, we&#8217;re specifically waiving any potential Fourth Amendment claim.&#8221; &#8220;I suppose that took a while?&#8221; &#8220;Actually less than a minute. I&#8217;ve been doing this a while.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2) Another lawyer called about a geofence warrant in a homicide case, taking about ten minutes to give the background, and he says: &#8220;I see these issues: X, Y, and Z.&#8221; I say: &#8220;You can&#8217;t win on the good faith exception. They did all they could to comply with the Fourth Amendment, and the court will never even have to get to the merits.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3) As a USMJ in the W.D.Ark. summed it up in a case, and I&#8217;m paraphrasing: &#8220;I&#8217;ve analyzed the probable cause showing and it&#8217;s a close question. I could go either way. And, if I can&#8217;t tell, the police sure couldn&#8217;t, so that&#8217;s enough for good faith.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United&nbsp;States v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897, 104 S. Ct. 3405, 82 L. Ed. 2d&nbsp;677 (July 5, 1984). It made my job easier. It&#8217;s far easier to tell whether an affidavit for search warrant will survive a motion to suppress. 1) &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=58200\">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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-faith-exception"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58200","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=58200"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58282,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58200\/revisions\/58282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}