{"id":2044,"date":"2008-07-21T15:14:17","date_gmt":"2008-05-03T17:40:52","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-04T17:59:39","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=2044","title":{"rendered":"Written inventory is not required by a police department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written proof of an inventory policy is not required for the state to sustain its burden of proving an inventory valid.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lexisone.com\/lx1\/caselaw\/freecaselaw?searchType=citation&amp;fclSearch=2008+La.+App.+LEXIS+619++&amp;action=FCLSearchCaseByCitation&amp;pageLimit=10&amp;format=CITE&amp;pageNumber=1&amp;sourceID=&amp;citation=2008+La.+App.+LEXIS+619++&amp;searchTerm=\">State v. Chatman<\/a>, 2008 La. App. LEXIS 619 (2d Cir. April 30, 2008) (Also, this specific issue was not addressed to the trial court, so it was waived.)  <em>Comment:<\/em> I have never been able to agree with this rationale, at all. Everybody has computers, and all police agencies have SOPs. If they have no written inventory policy, they should be held to have no policy. Official policy should be in writing, not part of an oral history. Subpoena the inventory policy and see if it complies with <a href=\"http:\/\/caselaw.lp.findlaw.com\/scripts\/getcase.pl?court=us&amp;vol=495&amp;invol=1\"><em>Florida v. Wells<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Defendant&#8217;s girlfriend had sufficient common authority, without regard to whether she was the actual lessee, to consent to a search. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lexisone.com\/lx1\/caselaw\/freecaselaw?searchType=citation&amp;fclSearch=2008+La.+App.+LEXIS+618&amp;action=FCLSearchCaseByCitation&amp;pageLimit=10&amp;format=CITE&amp;pageNumber=1&amp;sourceID=&amp;citation=2008+La.+App.+LEXIS+618&amp;searchTerm=\">State v. Thomas<\/a>, 981 So. 2d 850 (La. App. 2d Cir. 2008).*<\/p>\n<p>The defendant was arrested at a homeless shelter for an aggravated sexual assault, and his bags were seized with him because others could have appropriated them or gotten into them in the shelter. They were properly searched two days later with a search warrant. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.state.me.us\/court_info\/opinions\/2008%20documents\/08me76dr.pdf\">State v. Drewry<\/a>, 2008 ME 76, 946 A.2d 981 (2008).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=2044\">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-2044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044","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=2044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}