United States v. Master

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• holding that search violated the Fourth Amendment where it was conducted pursuant to a warrant issued by a judge who lacked jurisdiction under Tennessee law to issue the warrant
• holding a warrant to be invalid when issued by a state judge who did not preside in the county where the property to be searched was located
• repudiating a prior pronouncement that ab initio warrants preclude application of the good-faith exception in light of intervening Supreme Court precedent
• repudiating a prior pronouncement that ab initio war- rants preclude application of the good-faith exception in light of intervening Supreme Court precedent
• rejecting the argument that when a-judge “lack[s] legal authority to issue the relevant warrant, the good faith exception is foreclosed.”
• finding constitutional violation where issuing judge had no authority to issue search warrants for search and seizure of property located in another county

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