United States v. Melvin Ashley

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• issuing court may properly take into account affirmations in affidavit which are founded in part upon the experience of specially trained agents
• discussing standard of review for challenges to facial adequacy of affidavit
• “[T]he government is not required to show that other methods have been wholly unsuccessful. Nor is the government forced to run outlandish risks or to exhaust every conceivable alternative before requesting authorization for electronic surveillance.” (citations omitted)
• government is not required “to run outlandish risks” before requesting a wiretap
• “The authorizing court is also not precluded from referring to the nature of the alleged crimes in its evaluation of the sufficiency of the affidavit as to the required showing of antecedent efforts.”
• nature of the alleged crime relevant in determining necessity

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