Dwight Frederick Barnes v. United States
FourthAmendment CriminalProcedure Privacy
Can the good faith doctrine allow a police officer to rely on a geolocation warrant that lacks any showing of nexus in the application between the listed crime and location as evidence of that crime and lacks a nexus finding in the warrant, as required by the Fourth Amendment, based on legal criteria that justify warrantless searches?
QUESTION PRESENTED FOR REVIEW This petition presents the following questions: 1. Can the good faith doctrine allow a police officer to rely on a geolocation warrant that lacks any showing of nexus in the application between the listed crime and location as evidence of that crime and lacks a nexus finding in the warrant, as required by the Fourth Amendment, based on legal criteria that justify warrantless searches? 2. Do warrants for historic geolocation information that are not limited to particular time periods for which location would be evidence of the target offense constitute general warrants to which the good faith doctrine cannot apply? i