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181852P.pdf 04/16/2019 United States v. Zachary Reed
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 18-1852
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Jefferson City
[PUBLISHED] [Benton, Author, with Smith, Chief Judge, and Stras, Circuit
Judge]
Criminal case - Criminal law. An officer's discovery of a meth beaker in
plain view on defendant's back deck was not tainted by another officer's
earlier illegal entry as there was no evidence that the second officer had
been told about the beaker or instructed to get it; the second officer was
lawfully on defendant's back deck because the totality of the
circumstances created a reasonable belief that defendant was home; in his
challenge to a search warrant application, defendant was not entitled to a
Franks hearing because he failed to show that the officer seeking the
warrant omitted information in reckless disregard of the truth; warrant
application was supported by probable cause to believe defendant was
manufacturing meth at the home.