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Burmeister holds, "Inaccuracies will not necessarily invalidate a warrant if the officer applying for the warrant also executed the warrant". So even if you had analogous facts, and you do not, even in Illinois it does not support your claim that, "since affiant is same investigator who served warrant, good faith exception does not apply".

As for your continued complaint that there is not sufficient evidence to connect you to your garbage bags, again, you put identifying trash in one of the garbage bags at issue, and the circumstantial evidence that relates to your other garbage bag may in fact be ample to connect you to that bag. On this issue, Burmeister holds only that it is not sufficient to assume that trash that contains contraband was placed in a receptacle by the owner of the nearest house. Neither wishful thinking nor the use of the word "nexus" as a mantra is sufficient to overturn the magistrate's finding of probable cause. Even in Illinois, the fact that you did not include personally identifying materials in the garbage bag that contained your contraband is insufficient to require eyewitness testimony of you placing the trash bag outside of the home -- other evidence can be sufficient, even if you did not place (for example) discarded mail in that trash bag.
Well put, thanks again.

If by other evidence do you mean an electrical bill that could have many innocuous reasons to be 20% higher than the neighbors?

I am not suggesting there was an inaccuracy in the affidavit. Im Suggesting because the affiant knowingly submitted an affidavit lacking in PC the GF exception would not apply. Because affiant is same person who served it, he cannot claim he was unaware. any trained officer and especially the highly trained affiant knows about the link needed to the residence. These are not my pipedreams, but words used in similar cases.

There are examples where there was tip, controlled buy and drug related traffic, garbage pull and was still thrown out over no indices in same bag.