Whether the good-faith exception applies to save evidence obtained through an unconstitutional warrant because, hypothetically, if the magistrate had denied the warrant application and pointed out the defects, the government could have fixed them and obtained a valid warrant

QUESTION PRESENTED Before government agents can search a private home, the Fourth Amendment generally requires them to obtain a warrant supported by probable cause. Here, officers applied for, received, and executed a search warrant based on an affidavit that contained no link at all between petitioner and the address they wanted to search. The courts below agreed, and the government conceded, that the warrant did not establish probable cause, so the search was unconstitutional. But the Tenth Circuit still let the government use the resulting evidence because, it reasoned, if the magistrate had instead denied the warrant application and pointed out the defects, the government likely would have submitted a revised application that would have established probable cause, and a valid warrant would have issued. The question presented is: Whether the doctrine applies to save evidence obtained through an unconstitutional warrant because, hypothetically, if the magistrate had denied the warrant application and pointed out the defects, the government could have fixed them and obtained a valid warrant. @)