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· 4/30/2024

STATE OF FLORIDA v. DARREN ROBERT EARL CRITTENDEN

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  • acknowledging that officials may make at least a single inference to fill a gap in an affidavit
  • observing that good faith may be found where review “turn[s] up some modicum of evidence, however slight, to connect the criminal activity described in the affidavit to the place to be searched”
  • requiring only “some modicum of evidence, however slight, to connect the criminal activity . . . to the place to be searched”
  • finding no good-faith where nexus could only be established by “inferences drawn upon inferences”
  • “No reasonable officer could have believed that the affidavit was not so lacking in indicia of probable cause as to be reliable.”
  • “No reasonable officer could have believed that the affidavit was not so lacking in indicia of probable cause as to be reliable.”

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