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M.D.Fla.: That defendant often stayed someplace was good enough for Steagald

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

The defendant admittedly often stayed at the residence police entered with an arrest warrant. They had information he was there at the time, which he was, and that satisfied Steagald. United States v. Bellamy, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 100758 (M.D. Fla. June 16, 2010).* The affidavit for the search warrant showed probable cause, and defendant’s claim why the good faith exception should not apply is the two judge’s signatures on the papers didn’t exactly match, but they were still the judge’s signature. United States v. Stoudemire, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 100179 (M.D. Ala. September 21, 2010).* An ABF freight company employee smelled marijuana coming from a shipping container, and it was determined at the shipper’s warehouse that it contained 505 lbs of marijuana...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on September 28, 2010 (boomark / email).