United States Ninth Circuit

Though an affidavit was sufficient to demonstrate probable cause, a search warrant's failure to specify what criminal activity was being investigated, or suspected of having been perpetrated, renders its legitimacy constitutionally defective.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/11/2003
• Decided 09/24/2003
• Published 09/24/2003

Judges

• Before D.W. NELSON, THOMAS, Circuit Judges, and PREGERSON, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Robert Stephens, Jr., Billings, MT, for the defendant-appellant., James Seykora, Assistant United States Attorney, Billings, MT, for the plaintiff-appellee.