Search and Seizure Model Step 4

Question 1

Warrant Not Valid?

Answer 1

Good Faith Defense?

Question 2

Good Faith Defense

Answer 2

Officer’s good faith reliance on search warrant overcomes defects with probable cause or particularity requirements

Question 3

Exceptions to Good Faith Defense

Answer 3

So lacking in probably cause/particularity that no reasonable officer would have relied OR officer/prosecutor misled or lied to magistrate OR magistrate is baised and therefore wholly abandoned his/her neutrality