United States v. Spencer

Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge KAVANAUGH.

KAVANAUGH, Circuit Judge:

This is a Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule case. After finding Emmett Spencer in his car with drugs, the police obtained a search warrant from a D.C. Superior Court judge in order to search Spencer’s house. The officers executed the warrant and seized heroin, firearms, ammunition, and cash. After he was indicted in U.S. District Court for various federal drug and gun offenses, Spencer moved to suppress the evidence found in his house. He contended that the search warrant was not supported by probable cause; that…