United States v. Gary Lynn Weaver

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• concluding that an affidavit did not support the issuance of search warrant for the 10 United States v. Zimmerman, 277 F.3d 426, 433 (3d Cir. 2002
• holding that “[a]n affidavit that states suspicions, beliefs, or conclusions, without providing some underlying factual circumstances regarding veracity, reliability, and basis of knowledge, is a 'bare bones’ affidavit,” and fails to establish probable cause.
• holding that a pre-printed form affidavit where the affiant merely entered the defendant’s name, address, and the suspicion that the defendant was keeping marijuana, could not satisfy Leon
• holding that the good-faith exception did not apply where an officer “possessed some information from a previously reliable informant regarding possible criminal activities” but had “little firsthand information and [made] no personal observations”
• holding that “[a]n affidavit that states suspicions, beliefs, or conclusions, without providing some underlying factual circumstances regarding veracity, reliability, and basis of knowledge, is a ‘bare bones’ affidavit,” and fails to establish probable cause.
• explaining that “[t]he Fourth Amendment does not require an officer to reinvent the wheel with each search warrant application”

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