{"id":3514,"date":"2009-11-07T14:28:21","date_gmt":"2009-11-07T14:28:21","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-07T14:28:21","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=3514","title":{"rendered":"DE: No Fourth Amendment right in prison mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In its first time to address the issue, the Delaware Supreme Court holds that there is no First or Fourth Amendment right in prison mail that was read and seized by prison officials. <a href=\"http:\/\/courts.delaware.gov\/opinions\/(1irv5o45bey1uzz5hlkcmvqo)\/download.aspx?ID=129460\">Johnson v. State<\/a>, 2009 Del. LEXIS 582 (November 4, 2009):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here, as in Busby, Johnson&#8217;s Fourth Amendment argument may initially appear to be stronger than that under the First Amendment, because he may have had no reason to suspect that officials were inspecting his outgoing mail. However, in Stroud, the only United States Supreme Court case addressing the Fourth Amendment, the court permitted the prosecution to introduce evidence from an inmate&#8217;s outgoing mail. No precedent in Delaware or the Third Circuit indicates a different result. Johnson was on notice that his incoming prison mail was being opened and inspected. We hold that Johnson had no reasonable expectation of privacy regarding his non-privileged outgoing prison mail that he sent to Stewart.fn47<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>47. <a href=\"http:\/\/caselaw.lp.findlaw.com\/scripts\/getcase.pl?court=us&amp;vol=251&amp;invol=15\">Stroud v. United States<\/a>, 251 U.S. 15 (1919).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Defendant\u2019s post-conviction allegation that defense counsel did not challenge his search was belied by the record. <a href=\"http:\/\/courts.arkansas.gov\/court_opinions\/sc\/2009b\/20091105\/cr07-1229.pdf\">Viveros v. State<\/a>, 2009 Ark. 548, 2009 Ark. LEXIS 710 (November 5, 2009) (per curiam).*<\/p>\n<p>During a stop for over-possession of matches, which is reasonable suspicion in Arkansas, an outstanding warrant was found on defendant, and he consented to a further search. <a href=\"http:\/\/courts.arkansas.gov\/court_opinions\/coa\/2009b\/20090902\/ar08-1313.pdf\">Wade v. State<\/a>, 2009 Ark. App. 560; 2009 Ark. App. LEXIS 690 (September 2, 2009).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=3514\">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-3514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514","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=3514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}