{"id":3847,"date":"2010-02-14T06:48:37","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T06:48:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-14T06:48:37","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=3847","title":{"rendered":"TN: PC of personal use of marijuana no justification for computer search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While officers had probable cause to believe that defendant had small quantities of marijuana for personal use, they lacked sufficient evidence of trafficking to get the search warrant for defendant\u2019s computer.  Child pornography was found on the computer.  Tennessee has not adopted the good faith exception.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsc.state.tn.us\/OPINIONS\/tcca\/PDF\/A01\/State%20v%20Jody%20Bearden.pdf\">State v. Bearden<\/a>, 2010 Tenn. Crim. App. LEXIS 106 (February 11, 2010).<\/p>\n<p>A flyover of defendant\u2019s property apparently did not produce a view of marijuana growing, so the officers entered defendant\u2019s curtilage and found marijuana plants growing in buckets.  Then they attempted a knock-and-talk, but defendant was not home, and they called him twice trying to locate him to get consent.  The consent obtained was not sufficiently attenuated from the illegal entry, and the search is suppressed.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsc.state.tn.us\/OPINIONS\/tcca\/PDF\/A01\/State%20v%20Monte%20Blackwell.pdf\">State v. Blackwell<\/a>, 2010 Tenn. Crim. App. LEXIS 98 (February 10, 2010).*<\/p>\n<p>Questioning the defendant about drinking and driving at the scene of a one vehicle accident was apparently lawful under <a href=\"http:\/\/caselaw.lp.findlaw.com\/scripts\/getcase.pl?navby=case&amp;court=us&amp;vol=468&amp;page=420\">Berkemer<\/a>, so there was no plain error.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsc.state.tn.us\/OPINIONS\/tcca\/PDF\/A01\/State%20v%20Michael%20Hugo%20Brooks.pdf\">State v. Brooks<\/a>, 2010 Tenn. Crim. App. LEXIS 114 (February 11, 2010).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=3847\">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-3847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847","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=3847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}