{"id":12787,"date":"2014-08-01T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=12787"},"modified":"2014-08-01T08:00:15","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T13:00:15","slug":"ks-outgoing-prison-letters-may-be-searched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=12787","title":{"rendered":"KS: Outgoing prison letters may be searched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A prison inmate\u2019s outgoing letters are not protected by the Fourth Amendment since <a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=309382677623853685&#038;q=251+U.S.+15&#038;hl=en&#038;as_sdt=1006\">Stroud<\/a> (1919). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kscourts.org\/Cases-and-Opinions\/opinions\/SupCt\/2014\/20140725\/107571.pdf\">State v. Burnett<\/a>, 2014 Kan. LEXIS 429 (July 25, 2014) <\/p>\n<p>A brief hand-to-hand transaction may have been innocent, but it was enough for a trained officer to conclude it was likely a drug deal, at least enough for a stop. United States v. Morrison, 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 103410 (D. Minn. July 8, 2014).*<\/p>\n<p>Defendant\u2019s 2255 claim that there were concealed prior searches by the government has already been litigated and lost so it can\u2019t be raised in a 2255. Triplett v. United States, 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 103917 (N.D. Miss. July 30, 2014).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A prison inmate\u2019s outgoing letters are not protected by the Fourth Amendment since Stroud (1919). State v. Burnett, 2014 Kan. LEXIS 429 (July 25, 2014) A brief hand-to-hand transaction may have been innocent, but it was enough for a trained &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=12787\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emergency-exigency","category-probable-cause"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12787","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12788,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12787\/revisions\/12788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}