United States v. Thomas Rettig, United States of America v. Gary Nowak

How courts have described this case

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• ordering blanket suppression where, “[a]s interpreted and executed by the [searching] agents, th[e] warrant became an instrument for conducting a general search”
• nearly identical affidavit and warrant characterized in dicta as establishing probable cause and not an impermissible general warrant
• indicia of residence in a household sought under warrant which also authorized seizure of marijuana
• indicia of residence in a household sought under warrant which also authorized seizure of marijuana
• “the agents did not confine their search in good faith to the objects of the warrant, ... [which] became an instrument for conducting a general search.”
• “Where evidence is uncovered during a search pursuant to a warrant, the threshold question must be whether the search was confined to the warrant’s terms.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).