After serving a warrant and seizing the property, an error is found in the warrant that does not materially affect the warrant. Which is true regarding the seized property?

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The good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule applies when police rely reasonably on a warrant that is later found to have a defect that does not undermine its basic validity. If the error is minor and does not affect probable cause or the magistrate’s authority, the evidence seized under that warrant can still be admitted at trial because the officers acted in good faith and the warrant was otherwise valid on its face. That’s why the seized property is admissible here. The other options would only apply if the defect destroyed the warrant’s validity or undermined the officers’ reliance, which isn’t the case when the error is non-material.