26, 2005. It was unsealed on January 31, 2005. The motion to suppress was timely filed thereafter. II. The defendants contend that the search warrant is invalid because its supporting affidavit includes information tainted by a prior illegal search. The government acknowledges, as it must, that a magistrate’s probable cause determination may not be based on illegally obtained evidence. See Wong Sun v. United States, 371 U.S. 471, 488, 83 S.Ct. 407, 9 L.Ed.2d 441 (1963). However, in this circuit, when illegally obtained information is included in a search warrant affidavit, the resulting search can be upheld if, after excising the tainted information, the redacted affidavit is sufficient to establish probable cause. See United States v. Jenkins, 396 F.3d 751, 757-60 (6th Cir.2005) (<HOLDING>) (quoting United States v. Herrold, 962 F.2d
holding warrant valid where search warrant application affidavit was signed and probable cause existed for issuance of warrant holding that the related independent source rule could potentially apply on remand despite illegal police entry into a warehouse containing marijuana where police had legitimately gained probable cause prior to entry and separately obtained a warrant for entry if the search pursuant to warrant was in fact a genuinely independent source of the information and tangible evidence holding that officers were entitled to rely on the judicial officers finding of probable cause in issuing the search warrant unless they knowingly made false statements to obtain the warrant and that a challenge to the adequacy of the officers investigation does not rise to level of clearly established constitutional violation holding that if the application for a warrant contains probable cause apart from the improper information then the warrant is lawful and the independent source doctrine applies providing that the officers were not prompted to obtain the warrant by what they observed during the initial entry holding that an arrest warrant can authorize entry into a dwelling only where the officials executing the warrant have reasonable or probable cause to believe the person named in the warrant is within