{"id":13491,"date":"2014-09-30T10:56:39","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T15:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13491"},"modified":"2014-10-01T08:41:35","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T13:41:35","slug":"ca11-arguable-pc-for-arrest-gives-qualified-immunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13491","title":{"rendered":"CA11: Arguable PC for arrest gives qualified immunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arguable probable cause for a warrantless arrest and then a valid search warrant gives qualified immunity to the officers involved. Ultimately the DA decided not to prosecute the plaintiffs, and it was a close case for prosecution. <a href=\"http:\/\/media.ca11.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/unpub\/files\/201312826.pdf\">Roddy v. City of Huntsville<\/a>, 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 18555 (11th Cir. September 29, 2014).* The first two paragraphs pretty much say it all:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In this appeal we consider whether the arrests of Dr. William Roddy and his wife and the search of their hotel room, pursuant to a search warrant, violated their right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures. U.S. Const. amend. IV.<\/p>\n<p>The Roddys&#8217; day was off to a bad start when a hotel employee called 911 after Dr. Roddy allegedly pulled his gun on another hotel guest. It got worse when officers searched Dr. Roddy and recovered a gun, nearly $3,900 in wadded-up cash, and controlled substances. And then a search of Room 1020 offered a treasure trove of pain pills and other drugs. Because the officers acted with arguable probable cause when they arrested Dr. Roddy and his wife and because Officer Jason Ramsey procured a valid search warrant before searching the Roddys&#8217; hotel room, we conclude that the officers are entitled to qualified immunity. We affirm the summary judgment against the Roddys.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arguable probable cause for a warrantless arrest and then a valid search warrant gives qualified immunity to the officers involved. Ultimately the DA decided not to prosecute the plaintiffs, and it was a close case for prosecution. Roddy v. City &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13491\">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":[45,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-45","category-qualified-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13491","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=13491"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13500,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13491\/revisions\/13500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}