{"id":32039,"date":"2018-02-28T08:38:08","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T13:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=32039"},"modified":"2018-02-28T09:16:19","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T14:16:19","slug":"ca10-affidavit-established-a-minimally-sufficient-nexus-between-the-criminal-activity-and-the-place-to-be-searched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=32039","title":{"rendered":"CA10: \u201caffidavit established a minimally sufficient nexus between the criminal activity and the place to be searched.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDeputy Tucker&#8217;s affidavit established a minimally sufficient nexus between the criminal activity and the place to be searched.\u201d Therefore, the affidavit shows probable cause. \u201cThe warrant was not based on an affidavit that \u2018merely states suspicions, beliefs, or conclusions.\u2019 Roach, 582 F.3d at 1204-05. It adequately linked the Pair&#8217;s criminal activity to the place to be searched.\u201d The affidavit here was stronger than approved in another case. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca10.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/17\/17-5046.pdf\">United States v. Chambers<\/a>, 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 4787 (10th Cir. Feb. 27, 2018).* Not a ringing endorsement, but the good faith exception in SCOTUS just requires minimal effort.*<\/p>\n<p>After the suppression hearing and before the appellate brief was due, the state supreme court abandoned the more rigid Aguilar-Spinelli test for informant hearsay. The CI\u2019s basis of knowledge is still important. On the totality, there was probable cause. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsc.state.tn.us\/sites\/default\/files\/ferguson_barry_opn.pdf\">State v. Ferguson<\/a>, 2018 Tenn. Crim. App. LEXIS 149 (Feb. 27, 2018).*<\/p>\n<p>___________<br \/>\n* Good enough for government work?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDeputy Tucker&#8217;s affidavit established a minimally sufficient nexus between the criminal activity and the place to be searched.\u201d Therefore, the affidavit shows probable cause. \u201cThe warrant was not based on an affidavit that \u2018merely states suspicions, beliefs, or conclusions.\u2019 Roach, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=32039\">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":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nexus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32039"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32043,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32039\/revisions\/32043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}