{"id":29529,"date":"2017-10-01T00:01:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T05:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=29529"},"modified":"2017-09-30T16:46:21","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T21:46:21","slug":"ca5-thumping-a-spare-tire-on-pc-wasnt-an-unreasonable-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=29529","title":{"rendered":"CA5: Thumping a spare tire on PC wasn&#8217;t an unreasonable search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHere, the agent articulated several observations which, based on his eight years of experience at this [immigration] checkpoint, indicated that the truck&#8217;s spare tire contained contraband. Viewing this testimony in the light most favorable to the Government, and giving due deference to the district court&#8217;s assessment of the evidence, the court finds that Agent Carriaga had probable cause to believe the truck contained contraband before he \u2018smacked\u2019 the spare tire. Therefore, even if the \u2018smack\u2019 was a search, it did not violate the Fourth Amendment.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca5.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/pub\/16\/16-50643-CR0.pdf\">United States v. Martinez<\/a>, 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 18586 (5th Cir. Sept. 26, 2017).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAssuming without deciding that the search warrants lacked probable cause, the Court concludes that the evidence is nonetheless admissible under the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule as articulated in United States v. Leon, &#8230;,\u201d United States v. Forthun, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 159410 (D. Minn. Sept. 8, 2017),* adopted in part and modified in part, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 156744 (D. Minn. Sept. 25, 2017).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHere, the agent articulated several observations which, based on his eight years of experience at this [immigration] checkpoint, indicated that the truck&#8217;s spare tire contained contraband. Viewing this testimony in the light most favorable to the Government, and giving due &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=29529\">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":[36,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile-exception","category-immigration-checkpoints"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29529","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=29529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29530,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29529\/revisions\/29530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}