Ward v. Com.’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
27
cited by 27 later decisions
1
states following
March 2018
most recently cited
27 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Illinois v. Gates · United States v. Leon · Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States
Most-quoted passages
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““(1) [Wjhen the [magistrate] “was misled by information in an affidavit that the affiant knew was false or would have known was false except for his reckless disregard of the truth’; (2) when ‘the issuing magistrate wholly abandoned his judicial role in the manner condemned in Lo-Ji Sales, Inc. v. New York, 442 U.S. 319 , 99 S.Ct. 2319 , 60 L.Ed.2d 920 (1979)’; (3) when ‘an affidavit [is] so lacking in indicia of probable cause as to render official belief in its existence entirely unreasonable’; or (4) when ‘a warrant [is] so facially deficient ... that the executing officers cannot reasonably presume it to be valid.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]e are bound by the [Commissioner's] factual findings unless those findings are `plainly wrong or unsupported by the evidence.' Pyramid Development, L.L.C. v. D & J Associates, 262 Va. 750, 753 , 553 S.E.2d 725, 727 (2001). However, the [Commissioner's] application of the law is reviewed de novo. Brown v. Commonwealth, 270 Va. 414, 419 , 620 S.E.2d 760, 762 (2005).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he task of the issuing magistrate is simply to make a practical, common-sense decision whether, given all the circumstances set forth in the affidavit before him, including the “veracity” and “basis of knowledge” of persons supplying hearsay information, there is a fair probability that contraband or evidence of a crime will be found in a particular place. And the duty of a reviewing court is simply to ensure that the magistrate had a “substantial basis for .... concluding]” that probable cause existed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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