United States v. Raul Reyes

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that this circuit has “no talismanic formula for ascertaining which conspirator’s statements are ‘in furtherance’ of the conspiracy
• holding that, where a coconspirator told a government informant that the defendant was “sponsoring the purchase and distribution of cocaine,” the coconspirator made the statement in furtherance of the conspiracy
• holding that “in the age of modern technology and commercial availability of various forms of items, a [search] warrant could not be expected to describe with exactitude the precise form the records would take”
• noting that it “is reasonable to assume that certain types of evidence would be kept at a defendant’s residence”
• stating that seizure of a specific item characteristic of a generic class mentioned in the warrant is acceptable
• determining that evidence a suspect was a largescale drug trafficker established probable cause to search that suspect’s home for drugs and related evidence that drug traffickers often keep in their home

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).