United States v. Randy Lee Ewain

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an officer’s subjective intent is irrelevant to the determination of whether a search is within the scope of a warrant
• finding “[t]he officers’ subjective good faith [was] not the determinant of whether the evidence in plain view should be suppressed,” even though officers intentionally searched for evidence not included in the warrant
• “A policeman’s pure heart does not entitle him to exceed the scope of a search warrant . . . .”
• “A policeman’s pure heart does not entitle him to exceed the scope of a search warrant . . . .”
• that officer invited along, and not officer to whom warrant was issued, has expertise which makes immediately apparent criminal nature of objects in plain view, does not mean scope of warrant was exceeded

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).