United States v. Mario De Leon-Reyna

Today we decide whether the district court erred in granting a defendant’s motion to suppress evidence gathered following a warrantless investigatory stop — a stop made partly in good faith reliance on information that was inaccurate through police error. A panel of our Court affirmed the district court, concluding that the vehicle stop violated the defendant’s Fourth Amendment rights and further holding that “negligent” police conduct truncated the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule. We now reconsider that decision en banc and reverse the district court.

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