{"id":51120,"date":"2022-01-12T08:23:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T13:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=51120"},"modified":"2022-01-12T08:23:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T13:23:37","slug":"ca4-conclusory-allegations-dont-satisfy-franks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=51120","title":{"rendered":"CA4: Conclusory allegations don&#8217;t satisfy <em>Franks<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cIn arguing that he was entitled to a Franks hearing, Landaverde-Giron relies only on his own conclusory allegations to demonstrate intentional falsity or reckless disregard for the truth by the affiant. He points to no evidence supporting his conclusion that any alleged falsehoods about his Facebook account were made with the mental state required for a Franks hearing. Accordingly, the district court did not err in denying Landaverde-Giron&#8217;s motion to suppress without a Franks hearing.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ca4.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/184598.U.pdf\">United States v. Landaverde-Giron<\/a>, 2022 U.S. App. LEXIS 859 (4th Cir. Jan. 11, 2022).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSixth and finally, Thornton alleges a Fourth Amendment Violation. \u2026 All he says is, \u2018The material, warrants, affidavits and e[tc.]\u2019 The Court simply cannot conjure any prejudicial error from these six words. The allegation is incomprehensibly vague and unsupported by specific facts. [\u00b6] Given the vagueness of Thornton&#8217;s claims for relief and the total lack of factual support, he has not shown by a preponderance of the evidence that he suffered a prejudicial error.\u201d He was given an opportunity to amend and clarify and he didn\u2019t. Denied. United States v. Thornton, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 249636 (E.D.Ky. Dec. 17, 2021),* adopted, 2022 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 3446 (E.D.Ky. Jan. 7, 2022).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn arguing that he was entitled to a Franks hearing, Landaverde-Giron relies only on his own conclusory allegations to demonstrate intentional falsity or reckless disregard for the truth by the affiant. He points to no evidence supporting his conclusion that &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=51120\">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":[21,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-franks-doctrine","category-ineffective-assistance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51120","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=51120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51121,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51120\/revisions\/51121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}