U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
United States v. Tyrone Christian
Panel
The judges who heard this appeal.
- Senior Judge John M. Rogers
- Judge Amul Roger Thapar
Case history
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May 31, 2019decided Decision issued in United States v. Tyrone Christian
Opinions and writings
ROGERS, Circuit Judge. *308Based on a five-page-long search-warrant affidavit-which included evidence from a confidential informant and other sources, a controlled buy, and direct police-officer surveillance-a magistrate determined that there was probable cause to search 618 Grandville Avenue, Tyrone Christian's home, for evidence of drug traff…
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THAPAR, Circuit Judge, concurring. I concur in the majority opinion. There was probable cause to search Tyrone Christian's house, and, at the very least, the officers executed that search in good faith. But because of our precedent, we must ignore critical evidence of which the officers undisputedly knew and isolate the good-faith analysis to the four corners of the affidavit. See United States v. Laughton , <…