{"id":62673,"date":"2026-01-03T13:33:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T18:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62673"},"modified":"2026-01-03T14:38:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T19:38:19","slug":"ca10-nexus-subject-to-gfe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62673","title":{"rendered":"CA10:  Nexus subject to GFE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The charge was impersonating an FBI agent at a school student pickup line. A warrant was issued for defendant\u2019s house and computers to see if he bought faux FBI paraphernalia online.* The district court suppressed for lack of nexus. Reversed; there was minimal nexus for the good faith exception: \u201cIn addressing whether the good-faith presumption holds, we ask \u2018not whether the Magistrate erred in believing there was sufficient probable cause to support the scope of the warrant \u2026 [but] instead whether the Magistrate so obviously erred that any reasonable officer would have recognized the error.\u2019 Messerschmidt, 565 U.S. at 556. The focus here is on nexus to the home. Even if Officer Heidlage&#8217;s affidavit lacked the requisite nexus between Mr. Williams&#8217;s suspected criminal activity and his home for probable cause, it still provided a minimal connection justifying good-faith reliance on it.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ca10.uscourts.gov\/sites\/ca10\/files\/opinions\/010111360971.pdf\">United States v. Williams<\/a>, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 9 (10th Cir. Jan. 2, 2026). [*This has great potential for abuse.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officers were looking for defendant, and they saw him. He took off running. He had a red and black backpack. The officer lost him in the brush cover. A little later they found him without the backpack. It was objectively reasonable to believe it had been abandoned when it was found. United States v. Hatfield, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 25 (E.D. Ky. Jan. 2, 2026).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The charge was impersonating an FBI agent at a school student pickup line. A warrant was issued for defendant\u2019s house and computers to see if he bought faux FBI paraphernalia online.* The district court suppressed for lack of nexus. Reversed; &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62673\">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":[48,11,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-good-faith-exception","category-nexus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62673","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=62673"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62676,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62673\/revisions\/62676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}