United States v. James May

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that a person is free to draw reasonable inferences from a warrant affidavit
• holding that judges “may draw reasonable inferences” in assessing probable cause
• rejecting the argument that because an affidavit failed to identify the source of information uncovered during an investigation the information was necessarily unreliable
• assessing probable cause by “[t]esting the affidavit in a commonsense fashion, allowing for reasonable inference, and giving due deference to the judicial officer who issued the warrant”
• “evaluating the sufficiency of [an] affidavit” accompanying an application for search warrant requires a “commonsense” 2 Case: 22-30283 Document: 00516655832 Page: 3 Date Filed: 02/24/2023 No. 22-30283 approach and “officer may draw reasonable inferences”
• “When the charges are serious, courts should impose the sanction of dismissal with prejudice only for a correspondingly serious delay, especially in the absence of a showing of prejudice.”

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