United States v. Marvin B Cherna

KING, Chief Judge:

Defendant-appellant Marvin B. Cherna appeals his conditional plea of guilty to one count of mail fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1341 on the ground that the district court erred in denying his motion to suppress evidence obtained pursuant to an allegedly unconstitutional search warrant. Because we find that the executing officers acted in objectively reasonable good-faith reliance on the warrant, we affirm.

I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

In 1997, defendant-appellant Marvin B. Cherna was the executive director of Help Hospitalized Children’s Fund (HHCF) and American…