State v. Villagran

How courts have described this case

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• holding that police are not limited to searching the “most promising place” if probable cause exists to search other locations
• noting that “the circumstances of a case may give rise to probable cause to search several different locations at the same time, particularly where, as here, the evidence sought may be at once in more than one location”
• discussing role that logical conclusions, supported by facts and circumstances recited in affidavit, play in probable cause determinations
• probable cause existed to search a certain location even though a different location was a “more likely place to find the evidence sought”
• magistrate decides that probable cause to believe search would discover items specified in affidavit and court reviews whether neutral and detached magistrate reasonably could reach that conclusion
• magistrate decides that probable cause to believe search would discover items specified in affidavit and court reviews whether neutral and detached magistrate reasonably could reach that conclusion

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