Chatrie v. United States · ¶114
This outcome was guaranteed as soon as this Court granted certiorari. When seeking review in this Court, Chatrie recognized that dislodging the Fourth Circuit’s judgment required that he prevail on the good-faith issue, so his petition asked us to alter the good-faith exception. See Pet. for Cert. i, 34–37 (asking the Court to create a carve-out to the good-faith exception). Yet the Court excluded the good-faith issue from its grant of certiorari, 607 U. S. 1148 (2026), ensuring that any opinion would be advisory. Indeed, even if the Court were to decide that the warrant in this case was deficient, there would be no color- able argument on remand that all reasonable officers would have correctly predicted that outcome. See Leon, 468 U. S., at 923. After all, this Court has never provided guidance on how to apply the Warrant Clause when the police request geolocation data from a third…Read in context ›
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