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In an anticipatory warrant case, the officer did all he could to determine whether the premises was a single unit or not, and everything suggested it was single. \u201c[T]he agents’ investigation of the facts contained in the warrant, and their execution of it, were reasonable. And even if we doubted the warrant or agents’ execution of it, long-recognized exceptions to the warrant requirement apply here, as discussed below.\u201d United States v. Suggs<\/a>, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 7741 (7th Cir. Mar. 17, 2026):<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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But we must analyze McKeown’s conversation with the probation officer based on what McKeown knew then, not what we know now. See Garrison, 480 U.S at 85. When McKeown spoke to the probation officer, he had no reason to suspect the home was multi-unit. Rather, everything suggested the opposite, specifically: (1) none of his searches in govern-mental and public databases indicated the address had multiple units; (2) none of the driver records McKeown reviewed listed unit numbers; (3) the three residents listed shared the same last name, suggesting they lived together as a family; (4) every trackable parcel delivered to the address from October 2020 to October 2021–fifteen in all–were addressed without a unit number; and (5) the probation officer said nothing indicating that the address was a multi-unit dwelling. Nothing in McKeown’s investigation made it unreasonable for him to conclude that he was looking at a single-family dwelling, and there were no “red flags” that made it unreasonable for McKeown to fail to confirm this with the probation officer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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