United States v. Davis

N.R. SMITH, Circuit Judge:

On October 22, 2004, law enforcement agents executed a search warrant' and raided a large marijuana growing operation on private property in rural Oregon belonging to Jeffrey and Cynthia Davis. While officers were executing the search warrant on the Davis’s property, 1 Jeffrey Davis’s brother, Richard Davis, drove onto the property through a locked gate and, when asked, told officers in a moment of omniscient honesty that he knew “everything” about the marijuana growing operation.

We hold that the observations, upon which law enforcement officers relied to obtain the…