What is the test for establishing a nexus between the crime and the place to be searched?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Rohrbach, A145167 (Cal. App. 2018):
"To establish the required nexus between the crime and the place to be searched, officers must be very specific in explaining why evidence or inference warrants a belief as to the whereabouts of the evidence. Again, although an officer's training and experience are important, the courts are more interested in facts that logically lead to this conclusion. For example, consider the following cases: People v. Hernandez (1994) 30
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