{"id":61571,"date":"2025-07-31T09:24:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T14:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61571"},"modified":"2025-07-31T09:24:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T14:24:42","slug":"tx1-ambiguous-statement-wasnt-false-under-franks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61571","title":{"rendered":"TX1: Ambiguous statement wasn&#8217;t false under <em>Franks<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Was this ambiguity a \u201creckless\u201d \u201cfalse statement\u201d under Franks? No. <a href=\"https:\/\/search.txcourts.gov\/SearchMedia.aspx?MediaVersionID=63260fc1-654c-4778-a19f-ae61f5f87c21&amp;MediaID=547e5a25-15a1-4a6c-a17e-d695d7c5a5c7&amp;coa=%22%20+%20this.CurrentWebState.CurrentCourt%20+%20@%22&amp;DT=Opinion\">Rosales v. State<\/a>, 2025 Tex. App. LEXIS 5608 (Tex. App. \u2013 Houston (1st Dist.) July 31, 2025):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Judge Cornelio&#8217;s finding that Officer Wilson demonstrated a reckless disregard for the truth doesn&#8217;t hold up to scrutiny. First, one of the &#8220;false&#8221; statements wasn&#8217;t false at all but an ambiguous sentence the trial court interpreted uncharitably.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An ambiguous sentence is not &#8220;false&#8221; for Franks purposes. &#8220;[Affidavits] must be interpreted in a commonsense manner, neither held to the standard of what judges or lawyers feel they would have written if given the opportunity nor judged as an entry in an essay contest. Mere imprecision does not, by itself, show falsity.&#8221; United States v. Moody, 931 F.3d 366, 372 (4th Cir. 2019) (citations and quotations omitted) (rejecting Franks claim where complained-of sentence had multiple possible meanings, one of which was false).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was this ambiguity a \u201creckless\u201d \u201cfalse statement\u201d under Franks? No. Rosales v. State, 2025 Tex. App. LEXIS 5608 (Tex. App. \u2013 Houston (1st Dist.) July 31, 2025):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-franks-doctrine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61571","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=61571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61572,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61571\/revisions\/61572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}