{"id":32055,"date":"2018-03-02T09:23:42","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T14:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=32055"},"modified":"2018-03-02T09:23:42","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T14:23:42","slug":"la1-look-in-mailbox-to-confirm-defs-address-was-after-theyd-confirmed-his-apartment-not-unreasonable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=32055","title":{"rendered":"LA1: Look in mailbox to confirm def’s address was after they’d confirmed his apartment; not unreasonable"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the course of a homicide investigation, the victim was shown to have last talked to defendant on his cell phone just before his murder. That led to getting his picture to show to a witness who ID\u2019d him as being the shooter. Police went to a mailbox at the apartment complex and found he had apartment 3. The mailbox was open, and the police looked at a piece of mail to confirm it was his apartment. That was not an unreasonable search. Even if it was, they\u2019d already determined that apartment 3 was his, and that\u2019s the independent source doctrine. State v. Magee<\/a>, 2018 La. App. LEXIS 324 (La. App. 1 Cir. Feb. 27, 2018).*<\/p>\n

The prison \u201copen cell door policy is [not] a violation of his Fourth Amendment right to privacy\u201d because there is practically no reasonable expectation of privacy in a prison. Stiefel v. Dep’t of Butler County Prison of Pa., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 33294 (W.D. Pa. Mar. 1, 2018).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the course of a homicide investigation, the victim was shown to have last talked to defendant on his cell phone just before his murder. That led to getting his picture to show to a witness who ID\u2019d him as … Continue reading →<\/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":[60,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-independent-source","category-prison-and-jail-searches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32055","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=32055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32056,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32055\/revisions\/32056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}