{"id":20257,"date":"2016-01-06T09:23:54","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T14:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20257"},"modified":"2016-01-06T09:23:54","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T14:23:54","slug":"w-d-pa-gun-abandoned-in-flight-from-police-wasnt-the-product-of-an-illegal-seizure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20257","title":{"rendered":"W.D.Pa.: Gun abandoned in flight from police wasn&#8217;t the product of an illegal seizure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abandoned firearm in flight from the police in an allegedly illegal stop isn\u2019t a seizure, and the gun is admissible. United States v. Giles, 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 200 (W.D.Pa. Jan. 4, 2016).*<\/p>\n<p>The CI\u2019s tip was that he\u2019d seen defendant selling marijuana from the house. Details of the transaction were left out of the affidavit. An illegal dog sniff at the door still corroborated it. The fact there is MMJ in Illinois doesn\u2019t change anything in light of the CI\u2019s observation of sales. United States v. Conklin, 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 20 (S.D.Ill. Jan. 4, 2016).*<\/p>\n<p>Plaintiff\u2019s claim that the officer should have known that the CI provided a false identity was insufficient to state a Franks civil claim. It was essentially an assumption. <a href=\"http:\/\/nvcourts.gov\/Supreme\/Decisions\/Court_of_Appeals\/Opinions\/65143AdvanceOpinion102\/\">Palmieri v. Clark Cnty.<\/a>, 131 Nev. Adv. Rep. 102, 2015 Nev. App. LEXIS 16 (Dec. 31, 2015).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abandoned firearm in flight from the police in an allegedly illegal stop isn\u2019t a seizure, and the gun is admissible. United States v. Giles, 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 200 (W.D.Pa. Jan. 4, 2016).* The CI\u2019s tip was that he\u2019d seen &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20257\">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":[48,21,44,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-franks-doctrine","category-informant-hearsay","category-seizure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20257","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=20257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20258,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20257\/revisions\/20258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}