Case Explained: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. RYAN E. DALES

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Filed: 2026-06-23 The Fourth Circuit affirmed the district court’s denial of Ryan Dales’s motion to suppress evidence obtained from a search of his apartment. The court applied a de novo standard of review to the legal conclusions regarding probable cause and the good-faith exception, viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the government. The court held that the good-faith exception precluded suppression because federal agents relied on the search warrant in an objectively reasonable manner, and the warrant was not so facially deficient that a reasonably well-trained officer would have known it was illegal despite the magistrate’s authorization. Consequently, the evidence discovered during the search remains admissible for Dales’s federal wire fraud prosecution. Do It For The Case Law is a news reporting service. Nothing in this episode constitutes legal advice.