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· 4/8/1974

United States v. Dwight Edward Damitz, United States of America v. Harry Louis Varvil

Citations

  • 495 F.2d 50
  • 1974 U.S. App. LEXIS 9283

How courts have described this case

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  • where misstatements were made by an informer and were not material, warrant is valid if remainder of affidavit is true and suffices to show probable cause
  • warrant-less seizure of small notebook which, upon examination, was found to contain a series of numbers later shown to correspond to the weight in grams of the bricks of marijuana seized pursuant to a warrant, held valid under plain view doctrine
  • notebook used for recording drug weights

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Judges: Duniway, Choy, Taylor

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