⚖ Oral Arguments, with Context

The Seventh Circuit hears United States versus Turner. In 2018, a landlord in Champaign, Illinois, reported marijuana odors and suspected drug activity at an apartment. Police obtained warrants for a dog sniff and a follow-up apartment search. Officers found heroin, marijuana and two firearms. The trial court refused to suppress those items, meaning exclude them as evidence. Turner now challenges that decision. An affidavit is a sworn statement supporting a warrant request. Probable cause means a fair probability of finding contraband or evidence of a crime in a particular place. The good-faith exception can keep evidence admissible when officers reasonably rely on a judge's warrant, even if that warrant later proves invalid. The lawyers will debate what the marijuana odor and the other reported facts could establish at the time of this search.

USA v. Quintez Turner (No. 25-2489) — U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, argued October 28, 2026.