{"id":4155,"date":"2010-05-12T09:22:49","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T09:22:49","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T09:22:49","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=4155","title":{"rendered":"VA: Asking for search warrant is not obstruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A police officer responding to a domestic call comes to defendant\u2019s house and demands entry with gun drawn. Defendant says no, what about a warrant? The officer comes in anyway. The defendant\u2019s obstruction conviction is reversed and dismissed because the officer was, at most, barred from entry only for seconds. The defendant did not raise this as a Fourth Amendment issue so that was not decided, and the court didn\u2019t exactly decide that invoking one\u2019s constitutional right to ask for a warrant to enter the house is not obstruction of justice.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.state.va.us\/opinions\/opncavtx\/2597081.txt\">Kee v. City of Hampton<\/a>, 24 VLW 679 (November 10, 2009) (unpublished).*  Hat tip to Virginia Family Law Appeals: <a href=\"http:\/\/familylaw.typepad.com\/virginiafamilylawappeals\/2010\/05\/kee-v-hampton-using-4th-amdt-rights-isnt-obstruction-of-justice.html\">Kee v. Hampton: Using 4th Amdt. Rights Isn&#8217;t Obstruction of Justice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a \u00a7 2254 habeas case, the Eleventh Circuit remanded for a hearing on the merits of a Fourth Amendment claim to decide whether defense counsel was ineffective in not pursuing his Franks challenge. Still applying the AEDPA standard of review, the state court\u2019s findings have support in the record, such that they did not act unreasonably in deciding that he did not state a Franks claim. Hearn v. Sec&#8217;y of Corrections, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 45209 (M.D. Fla. April 13, 2010).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=4155\">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-4155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155","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=4155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}