{"id":54366,"date":"2023-02-23T09:15:08","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T14:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=54366"},"modified":"2023-02-23T09:15:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T14:15:08","slug":"ca10-perfunctory-factual-references-with-three-legal-theories-not-enough-to-get-a-suppression-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=54366","title":{"rendered":"CA10: &#8220;perfunctory factual references&#8221; with three legal theories not enough to get a suppression hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cRather than outline factual disputes, Windom&#8217;s motion to suppress offered three legal arguments\u2014staleness, nexus, and lack of good faith\u2014for why the affidavit was insufficient to support a search warrant. These arguments contained only perfunctory factual references, with none rising to the level of definite, detailed, and nonconjectural allegations. \u2026 This absence of disputed facts and primary reliance on issues of law alone demonstrate the district court did not abuse its discretion by proceeding without a hearing.\u201d On appeal, defendant is more specific, but the specifics were never presented to the district court. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ca10.uscourts.gov\/sites\/ca10\/files\/opinions\/010110815825.pdf\">United States v. Windom<\/a>, 2023 U.S. App. LEXIS 4036 (10th Cir. Feb. 21, 2023).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government did not show that a search with a warrant was inevitable, so inevitable discovery fails. \u201cThe doctrine does not apply unless it was inevitable that routine procedures would have uncovered the evidence in question. \u2026 Though the doctrine requires courts to do some barebones gap-filling, it is not appropriate for the Court to over-speculate or accept conjecture from the government.\u201d Motion to suppress granted. United States v. West, 2023 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 28268 (E.D. Ky. Feb. 21, 2023)*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cRather than outline factual disputes, Windom&#8217;s motion to suppress offered three legal arguments\u2014staleness, nexus, and lack of good faith\u2014for why the affidavit was insufficient to support a search warrant. These arguments contained only perfunctory factual references, with none rising to &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=54366\">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":[68,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inevitable-discovery","category-suppression-hearings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54366","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=54366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54367,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54366\/revisions\/54367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}