The following excerpt is from United States v. Williams, No. 02-1453. (2nd Cir. 2003):
Here, the officers who executed the warrant were familiar with the apartment because they had purchased drugs there through a confidential informant shortly before the warrant was executed. They had surveilled the informant entering that apartment through the brown side entrance door specified in the warrant. Accordingly, there was no risk that the executing officers would use any other door or mistakenly enter the wrong apartment. See United States v. Durk, 149 F.3d 464, 466 (6th Cir. 1998) (finding warrant containing inaccurate description valid because "[u]nder the[] circumstances, no reasonable probability existed that the officers would search the wrong premises as a result of the inaccuracies"); see also United States v. Gitcho, 601 F.2d 369, 372 (8th Cir. 1979) (holding that fact that agents executing warrant personally knew
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