United States v. Charles Lester Vanness

Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge RANDOLPH.

Opinion concurring in part and concurring in the judgment filed by Circuit Judge TATEL.

RANDOLPH, Circuit Judge:

This appeal from a criminal conviction raises two issues, the first concerning the legality of a search pursuant to a warrant, the second concerning the sentence.

As to the search, the dispute goes to the sufficiency of the detective’s affidavit, which convinced a judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia to issue the warrant. The three-page, single-spaced, typed affidavit reported that during the preceding months,…