{"id":10542,"date":"2014-03-15T09:40:15","date_gmt":"2014-03-15T09:40:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-15T09:40:15","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10542","title":{"rendered":"GA: Dog sniff in hotel hallway was reasonable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A hotel manager complained to police that hotel housekeeping was finding drug paraphernalia in rooms. He asked police for a dog sniff of the hallways, and that led to a search warrant issued for defendant\u2019s hotel room. The search warrant was valid, and the good faith exception applied in any event.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.in.gov\/judiciary\/opinions\/pdf\/03121403ewn.pdf\">Blankenship v. State<\/a>, 2014 Ind. App. LEXIS 98 (March 12, 2014).<\/p>\n<p>The affidavit for the search warrant showed probable cause to believe contraband would be found. The good faith exception then supported seizing drug paraphernalia. United States v. Scott, 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 31788 (N.D. W.Va. January 30, 2014), adopted 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 31789 (N.D. W. Va. March 12, 2014).* [Note: What about plain view: The police are there with a search warrant, and the evidentiary value is immediately apparent? The good faith exception is not a panacea for all alleged errors.]<\/p>\n<p>Defendant\u2019s stop was based on failure to signal, and then he consented to a search of his car and house. \u201cWhen they reached the residence, Ledgerwood asked \u2018if it would be okay to search,\u2019 and the Defendant affirmed \u2018yes, go ahead &#8211; he kept saying, go ahead and search. Go ahead. There&#8217;s nothing.\u2019 Tr. at 16-17. In addition to this verbal consent, Ledgerwood presented a consent form in the Defendant&#8217;s native Spanish, which Defendant signed.\u201d United States v. Sanchez-Ruiz,, 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 31580 (N.D. Ga. February 14, 2014), R&amp;R 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 31581 (N.D. Ga. March 11, 2014).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10542\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}