United States v. James Regis Whitner, Jr., A/K/A Jr

How courts have described this case

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• finding the conclusion of an experienced law enforcement officer as to the location of evidence is entitled to considerable weight
• collecting cases and agreeing that “evidence of involvement in the drug trade is likely to be found where the dealers reside.”
• upholding search of a defendant’s apartment where affidavit of probable cause suggested that the defendant was a drug dealer and disclosed a series of deceptive responses from the defendant regarding his residence
• collecting cases finding probable cause based on drug-dealer inference from First, Second, Fourth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, and D.C. Circuits, but declining to decide whether to adopt rule, resolving case on other grounds
• affirming magistrate’s reliance on officer’s affidavit based on his experience with stash houses
• association with a known drug dealer supports probable cause that the defendant is involved in the drug trade

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).