## Q24 key (Suppression Motion Audit)

1. Lead with the metal tube. No listed laptop, label, paper record, phone, or other described item could fit, so opening the opaque three-inch tube exceeded the warrant; fentanyl should be suppressed. Missed: the strongest physical-search issue is absent.
2. Next challenge the three-year photo search. The warrant allowed January 1 through February 18 communications concerning stolen laptops, not unrestricted historical photographs; the gun image was not encountered during an in-scope review and should be suppressed. Missed: unrelated digital evidence survives an unbriefed scope violation.
3. Staleness is weak. Six weeks of ongoing fencing, a home-storage statement, and a February 18 location ping support a fair probability on February 20. Do not lead with the twelve-day age of the first theft. Missed: credibility is spent on a fact the affidavit cures.
4. Knock-and-announce does not yield suppression under the supplied remedy rule. Preserve any separate remedy but remove it as a basis to suppress every item. Missed: the motion asks for relief legally unavailable.
5. The under-bed gun survives. Officers could lawfully look where a 15-inch laptop fit, the gun was uncovered beside a laptop, and the obliterated serial number made incriminating character apparent. Missed: a lawful plain-view seizure is overstated and weakens severability analysis.
6. Suppression is severable: fentanyl and the phone photograph fall, while the laptop and under-bed gun remain. The corrected outline should present scope, digital scope, then the weaker preserved issues, not seek automatic suppression of all evidence. Missed: an all-or-nothing motion loses winnable item-specific relief.
7. Plea analysis must remove the fentanyl count and any charge dependent solely on the old phone photograph while retaining firearm exposure from the under-bed gun. Missed: negotiation proceeds on either evidence that should fall or a gun that remains admissible.