{"id":64757,"date":"2026-09-05T11:52:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T16:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64757"},"modified":"2026-09-06T11:53:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T16:53:47","slug":"ca8-sw-affidavit-cant-be-supplemented-but-a-revised-one-can-be-filed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64757","title":{"rendered":"CA8: SW affidavit can&#8217;t be supplemented, but a revised one can be filed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the Eighth Circuit at least, the government can\u2019t supplement a search warrant affidavit. Here, however, they submitted a revised affidavit which clarified what amounts to an immaterial fact. Affirmed. <a href=\"https:\/\/ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov\/opndir\/26\/08\/251516P.pdf\">United States v. Smith<\/a>, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 26544 (8th Cir. Aug. 31, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was no reasonable suspicion while the officer was first talking to defendant, but it developed when he saw the magazine to a gun sticking out of his hoodie pocket, and grabbed him and spun him around. His statements after that are not fruit of the poisonous tree. United States v. Davenport, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 195653 (E.D. Pa. Aug. 31, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2255 petitioner can\u2019t show that defense counsel\u2019s \u201cfurther investigation could have revealed a deficiency which Defendant claims appears on the face of the warrant. Defendant has not shown that his counsel was ineffective for failing to investigate or challenge the search warrant before trial.\u201d United States v. Sims, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 195862 (N.D. Ohio Aug. 31, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Eighth Circuit at least, the government can\u2019t supplement a search warrant affidavit. Here, however, they submitted a revised affidavit which clarified what amounts to an immaterial fact. Affirmed. United States v. Smith, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 26544 (8th &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64757\">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":[23,136,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ineffective-assistance","category-oath-or-affirmation","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64757","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=64757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64758,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64757\/revisions\/64758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}