United States v. Lauren Eric Wilhelm

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• holding that “the Leon good-faith exception does not apply in the case of a bare bones affidavit”
• concluding that the good faith exception did not apply where the affiant did little more than assert that probable cause existed
• holding that anonymous informant was not presumptively reliable merely because he supplied information about marijuana being present and sold in defendant's home
• recognizing that a “bare bones” affidavit is “one that contains wholly conclusory statements, which lack the facts and circumstances from which a magistrate can independently determine probable cause” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• noting that “[upholding this warrant would ratify police use of an unknown, unproven informant — with little or no corroboration”
• observing that \anyone who occasionally watches the evening news can make generalizations about what marijuana looks like and how it is packaged and sold\

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