Skeletal motion to suppress without facts or law denied. United States v. Matar, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 141206 (W.D.N.Y. June 25, 2025):<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Matar seeks to suppress evidence obtained by the government pursuant to search warrants dated August 20, 2022 (22-mj-5072), October 11, 2022 (22-mj-167), and April 14, 2023 (23-rmj-5059). He argues that “the search warrants issued are over-broad, or, alternatively, the searches exceed the scope of the warrants issued” (Barone Affirmation [28] at 3, \u00b64), but offers no factual or legal support for that argument.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“A skeletal argument, unsupported by relevant authority or reasoning, is merely an assertion which does not sufficiently raise the issue to merit the court’s consideration.” Government Employees Insurance Co. v. Strut, 758 F. Supp. 3d 140, 149 (W.D.N.Y. 2024). See also Palin v. New York Times Co., 113 F.4th 245, 279 (2d Cir. 2024) (“Palin never attempts any effort at developed argumentation \u2026. Because the issue is adverted to in only a perfunctory manner . . . it is likely forfeited”); United States v. Gray, 2015 WL 13842750, at *14 (W.D.N.Y.), adopted, 2015 WL 13842748 (W.D.N.Y. 2015) (“[s]ince this motion \u2026 makes only skeletal arguments as to why the \u2026 search warrant was deficient, I recommend that it be denied”).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Matar also “requests a hearing pursuant to Franks [Franks v. Delaware, 438 U.S. 154 (1978)] as the allegations contained in the search warrant applications contain information that the Government knew or should have known to be false at the time it was offered to the Court”. Barone Affirmation [28] at 3, \u00b66. Again, he fails to elaborate by identifying which allegations he refers to, or what information was false.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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