{"id":3822,"date":"2010-02-07T10:57:40","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T10:57:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T10:57:40","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=3822","title":{"rendered":"DE: Showing for nighttime search warrant failed; degradation of evidence in abstract not enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nighttime search warrant failed because of failure to show any specifics of why there was exigency for the nighttime entry.  The mere chance of \u201cdegradation of evidence\u201d is not enough. <a href=\"http:\/\/courts.delaware.gov\/opinions\/%281irv5o45bey1uzz5hlkcmvqo%29\/download.aspx?ID=133160\">State v. White<\/a>, 2010 Del. Super. LEXIS 27 (February 2, 2010):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here, the only facts contained in the affidavit that suggest exigent circumstances are the location to be searched, a motel room, and the affiant&#8217;s cursory statement that he is aware of the &#8220;possibility of degradation of evidence, particularly blood and biological evidence.&#8221; The affidavit is most striking for all the information it does not contain, much of which could have supported exigent circumstances justifying a nighttime warrant. For example, nowhere in the affidavit does the affiant tell the magistrate: [much of anything].<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=3822\">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-3822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3822","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=3822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}