{"id":4118,"date":"2010-09-06T19:41:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T21:15:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T21:15:56","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=4118","title":{"rendered":"CAAF: No general exception to Fourth Amendment in living quarters in a combat zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Court of Appeals of the Armed Forces held today there is no general Fourth Amendment exception to military quarters in a combat zone.  The court declined to rely on the military judge\u2019s alternate ruling \u201cthat Appellant had no reasonable expectation of privacy in his living quarters.\u201d  Under the facts of this case, the court held that the military judge appropriately concluded that the commanding officer \u201chad a substantial basis for making a probable cause determination to authorize the search.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armfor.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/2009SepTerm\/09-0589.pdf\">United States v. Huntzinger<\/a>, 69 M.J. 1 (C.A. A.F. 2010):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[T]he granted issues concern the unique powers of search and seizure granted to military commanders under the application of the Fourth Amendment to members of the armed forces.  These rules apply in domestic and deployed locations.  Although the application of the rules and the exceptions therein depend upon the context, there is no general exception for locations or living quarters in a combat zone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caaflog.com\/2010\/04\/30\/caaf-affirms-in-huntzinger\/\">CAAFlog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=4118\">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-4118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4118","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=4118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}