{"id":13041,"date":"2014-08-24T14:03:19","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T19:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13041"},"modified":"2014-08-24T15:25:16","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T20:25:16","slug":"tx1-fire-scene-search-of-unprotected-property-months-after-fire-not-unlawful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13041","title":{"rendered":"TX1: Fire scene search of unprotected property months after fire not unlawful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Months after a fire, arson investigators entered defendant\u2019s property again to try to determine the source of the fire. It was not a criminal investigation yet. Significant here was that defendant hadn\u2019t done anything to secure the premises, contrary to what happened in <a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=9802360725006311488&#038;q=Clifford&#038;hl=en&#038;as_sdt=20002\">Clifford<\/a>. The warrantless second entry was not a violation of the Fourth Amendment. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.search.txcourts.gov\/SearchMedia.aspx?MediaVersionID=48a1ab74-e745-464e-b24a-ca3a4446ad26&#038;MediaID=86d98567-eda9-4761-9d4b-8d113bee2e9b&#038;coa=%22%20+%20this.CurrentWebState.CurrentCourt%20+%20@%22&#038;DT=Opinion\">Tata v. State<\/a>, 2014 Tex. App. LEXIS 9138 (Tex. App. \u2013 Houston (1st Dist.) August 19, 2014).<\/p>\n<p>Greenpeace sued Dow for industrial espionage for going through its trash out for collection and recycling. There\u2019s no invasion of privacy claim, trespass, or conversion claim stated. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dccourts.gov\/internet\/documents\/13-CV-685.pdf\">Greenpeace, Inc. v. Dow Chemical Co.<\/a>, 2014 D.C. App. LEXIS 307 (August 21, 2014).<\/p>\n<p>The encounter here started completely consensually, and the officer\u2019s statement to \u201cmove over here,\u201d while not phrased as a question didn\u2019t change it to a stop. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourt.ohio.gov\/rod\/docs\/pdf\/4\/2014\/2014-ohio-3600.pdf\">State v. Blankenship<\/a>, 2014-Ohio-3600, 2014 Ohio App. LEXIS 3535 (4th Dist. August 14, 2014).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Months after a fire, arson investigators entered defendant\u2019s property again to try to determine the source of the fire. It was not a criminal investigation yet. Significant here was that defendant hadn\u2019t done anything to secure the premises, contrary to &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13041\">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":[9,24,18,4,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative-search","category-consent","category-reasonable-expectation-of-privacy","category-stop-and-frisk","category-warrant-requirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13041","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=13041"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13046,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13041\/revisions\/13046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}