{"id":31972,"date":"2018-02-24T15:03:45","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T20:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=31972"},"modified":"2018-02-24T11:24:28","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T16:24:28","slug":"va-abc-employee-firing-for-excessive-administrative-search-affirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=31972","title":{"rendered":"VA: ABC employee firing for excessive administrative search affirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Appellant was a agent of the Virginia ABC who conducted an unreasonable and excessive warrantless search of a licensee\u2019s premises, and he was fired for abuse of authority. He appealed through the state grievance procedure claiming the search was legal, but he lost. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.state.va.us\/opinions\/opnscvwp\/1161777.pdf\">Osburn v. Va. Dep&#8217;t of Alcoholic Bev. Control<\/a>, 2018 Va. LEXIS 5 (Feb. 22, 2018).<\/p>\n<p>Defendant\u2019s framing of his ineffective assistance of counsel claim based on a failure to pursue a knock-and-announce claim fails. The smell of marijuana occurred before the entry, and the knock-and-announce question isn\u2019t dispositive. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsc.state.tn.us\/sites\/default\/files\/snider_john_ashley_opn.pdf\">Snider v. State<\/a>, 2018 Tenn. Crim. App. LEXIS 127 (Feb. 22, 2018).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appellant was a agent of the Virginia ABC who conducted an unreasonable and excessive warrantless search of a licensee\u2019s premises, and he was fired for abuse of authority. He appealed through the state grievance procedure claiming the search was legal, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=31972\">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":[9,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative-search","category-ineffective-assistance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31972","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=31972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31973,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31972\/revisions\/31973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}