{"id":62178,"date":"2025-10-24T09:28:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62178"},"modified":"2025-10-24T09:28:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:28:23","slug":"oh5-oath-or-affirmation-requirement-satisfied-by-gfe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62178","title":{"rendered":"OH5: Oath or affirmation requirement satisfied by GFE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Even if the oath or affirmation technically fails here, the good faith exception saves the warrant. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.ohio.gov\/rod\/docs\/pdf\/5\/2025\/2025-Ohio-4863.pdf\">State v. Lucas<\/a>, 2025-Ohio-4863, 2025 Ohio App. LEXIS 3605 (5th Dist. Oct. 22, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe conclude that the trial court properly denied the motion to suppress. Giving deference to the magistrate, we conclude that it did not err when it determined that the affidavit provided probable cause to support the search warrant. The affidavit provided a sufficient nexus between the first-degree murder based on aggravated child abuse of the victim and a search of the Defendant&#8217;s cell phone. The affidavit included the investigating officer&#8217;s experience in working on homicides and provided specific details of the investigation. The investigators met with the victim&#8217;s parents and determined that the Defendant was in exclusive control of the victim while Mother was at work. The affidavit also included the Defendant&#8217;s statement that he tripped over a toy, fell down the stairs, and dropped the victim. \u2026\u201d State v. Clark, 2025 Tenn. Crim. App. LEXIS 508 (Oct. 23, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant\u2019s after-filed affidavit of standing was sufficient to give him standing, but he loses on consent. United States v. Anthony, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 209120 (E.D.N.Y. Oct. 23, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if the oath or affirmation technically fails here, the good faith exception saves the warrant. State v. Lucas, 2025-Ohio-4863, 2025 Ohio App. LEXIS 3605 (5th Dist. Oct. 22, 2025). \u201cWe conclude that the trial court properly denied the motion &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62178\">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":[11,136,20,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-faith-exception","category-oath-or-affirmation","category-probable-cause","category-standing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62178","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=62178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62179,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62178\/revisions\/62179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}