United States v. Kunen

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

HURLEY, District Judge.

Pending before the Court are motions by Scott Kunen (“Kunen”), Paul Alexander (“Alexander”), Frank Bellavia (“Bellavia”), and George Stephens, (“Stephens”) to suppress child pornography seized upon the execution of search warrants at their respective homes. The grounds advanced by each defendant are essentially the same, viz., that information in the affidavit submitted in support of the application for the search warrant was either (a) known by the FBI agents involved to be false or (b) the product of the agents’ reckless disregard for the truth and…