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202583P.pdf 08/20/2021 United States v. Dwight Barnes
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 20-2583
U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
[PUBLISHED] [Kobes, Author, with Colloton and Wollman, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law. Defendant challenges denial of his motion to
suppress GPS tracking data from his phone and Google email account; the
officers were entitled to rely on the magistrate judge's finding that the
there was nexus between the geolocation data requested by the warrant and
criminal activity and the Leon good faith exception applied to the
warrants; argument that the cumulative effect of alleged evidentiary
errors denied defendant a fair trial rejected; even if all the objected-to
evidence had been kept out, the core facts supporting the verdict
remained.