{"id":61702,"date":"2025-08-16T09:48:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T14:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61702"},"modified":"2025-08-16T09:48:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T14:48:52","slug":"d-p-r-franks-defendants-must-do-more-than-construct-self-serving-statements-that-refute-the-warrant-affidavit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61702","title":{"rendered":"D.P.R.: <em>Franks:<\/em> \u201cdefendants must do more than construct self-serving statements that refute the warrant affidavit\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>United States v. Ruiz-Ruiz, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 158695 (D.P.R. Aug. 14, 2025):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, to overcome the presumptive validity of an application supporting a search warrant, defendants must do more than construct self-serving statements that refute the warrant affidavit. United States v. Andujar-Ortiz, 575 F.Supp. 2d 373, 377 (D.P.R. 2008) (finding that &#8220;a Defendant&#8217;s self[-]serving statement is not a sufficient offer of proof&#8221;); see United States v. McDonald, 723 F.2d 1288, 1294 (7th Cir. 1983). &#8220;[F]lat denials of allegations \u2026 fall short of the &#8216;substantial preliminary showing&#8217; required to justify a Franks hearing because this only &#8216;set[s] up a swearing contest.'&#8221; United States v. P\u00e9rez-Greaux, 83 F.4th 1, 33 (1st Cir. 2023) (citation omitted). Thus, a &#8220;flat denial alone &#8216;do[es] not demonstrate a substantial possibility of affiant perjury.'&#8221; Id. (citation omitted); see also United States v. Southard, 700 F.2d 1, 10 (1st Cir. 1983) (holding bare denials of facts stated in law enforcement affidavits &#8220;do not demonstrate a substantial possibility of affiant perjury&#8221; and thus fail to help defendants meet a &#8220;substantial preliminary showing&#8221; of falsehood).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United States v. Ruiz-Ruiz, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 158695 (D.P.R. Aug. 14, 2025):<\/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-61702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-franks-doctrine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61702","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=61702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61703,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61702\/revisions\/61703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}