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183150P.pdf 03/30/2020 United States v. Alden Dickerman
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 18-3150
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis
[PUBLISHED] [Kelly, Author, with Melloy and Stras, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law. The police acted in good faith under the
warrant and the Leon good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule
applied; argument that Leon does not apply because the state court judge
who issued the warrant abandoned his judicial role and acted as a "rubber
stamp" for law enforcement rejected.