United States v. Sidney Brown

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• observing that an affiant’s admission that he “typed [the affidavit] up wrong”— to include an allegedly false statement about a person’s presence—“merely show[ed] that [the affiant] was negligent”
• discussing testimony that firearm was loaded and therefore “ready to go” as a basis for sufficiency of evidence
• “[W]e may only reverse a magistrate’s decision to grant a search warrant if the magistrate arbitrarily exercised his or her authority.”
• “[O]ur precedent clearly establishes that the affiant need only specify that the confidential informant has given accurate information in the past to qualify as reliable.” (citation modified)
• “[T]he gun’s location under the mattress in the bedroom consti tuted a strategic location: despite the bedroom’s second-floor location, ... the house was small enough so that someone on the first floor could retrieve the gun within ten to fifteen seconds.”
• “Probable cause exists ‘when there is a “fair probability,” given the totality of the circumstances, that contraband or evidence of a crime will be found in a particular place.’” (quoting United States v. Greene, 250 F.3d 471, 479 (6th Cir. 2001))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).