The following excerpt is from U.S. v. Salameh, 152 F.3d 88, 1998 WL 440473 (2nd Cir. 1998):
We accord "great deference" to a judge's determination that probable cause exists, and we resolve any doubt about the existence of probable cause in favor of upholding the warrant. See United States v. Jakobetz, 955 F.2d 786, 803 (2d Cir.1992). Our duty is "simply to ensure that the magistrate had a 'substantial basis for ... conclud[ing]' that probable cause existed." Gates, 462 U.S. at 238-39, 103 S.Ct. 2317 (citation omitted; alterations in original).
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