United States v. Deon Powell

DAMON J. KEITH, Circuit Judge.

The central issue in this case is whether the district court erred in denying the defendant’s motion to suppress guns and ammunition seized pursuant to an allegedly stale search warrant. Because the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule applies to the government’s search and seizure, we AFFIRM.

I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

On May 6, 2011, a magistrate judge in the Eastern District of Michigan issued a search affidavit to support the search war rant application. See R. at 62. 1 The affidavit details a drug trafficking enterprise led by Anthony…