IN: The facts of a neighborhood feud that ended in murder suggested nexus to def’s house for the murder weapon

In a neighborhood feud murder case, the known, albeit limited, facts strongly suggested that defendant was the shooter and thus the murder weapon would be found at his house. This was sufficient nexus. Also, citizen informants don’t have to be corroborated, and inconsistencies between them does not undermine probable cause. Fry v. State, 2015 Ind. App. LEXIS 68 (February 4, 2015).

At the time of defendant’s warrantless cell phone search, this court had held that a search incident was reasonable. Therefore, even though that authority was overruled by the state supreme court on further appeal, the good faith exception would be applied, and the phone’s contents would not be suppressed. State v. Carpenter, 2015 Fla. App. LEXIS 1461 (Fla. 1st DCA February 5, 2015).*

In a case involving several alleged rights of the homeless in Sacramento, the mere threat to arrest them was not coercive in violation of a state civil rights law. Allen v. City of Sacramento, 2015 Cal. App. LEXIS 116 (3d Dist. February 6, 2015).*