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Type
Opinion
Author
John Kenneth Bush
Filed
Sept. 20, 2018
Case
United States v. Erik McCoy
Case status
Decided

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JOHN K. BUSH, Circuit Judge. Police officers obtained a warrant, searched defendants' home, and found over 2,000 grams of heroin, marijuana, drug-distribution paraphernalia, and a large amount of cash. Despite the search's having been conducted under a judge-issued warrant, the district court suppressed the evidence, holding that because the warrant application so failed to connect defe…

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