{"id":42286,"date":"2020-02-08T09:01:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T14:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=42286"},"modified":"2020-02-08T09:48:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T14:48:12","slug":"ca5-when-appealing-pc-and-gfe-both-have-to-be-brief-on-appeal-or-waiver-it-will-be-affirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=42286","title":{"rendered":"CA5: When appealing PC and GFE, both have to be briefed on appeal or it will be affirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the district court decides a Fourth Amendment case on probable cause and good faith exception, counsel on appeal has to brief both issues. Failure to brief the good faith exception here results in affirmance by waiver of the issue. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca5.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/unpub\/19\/19-30333.0.pdf\">United States v. Harp<\/a>, 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 3769 (5th Cir. Feb. 7, 2020).<\/p>\n<p>Plaintiff sued an assistant principal for allegedly touching her son\u2019s genitalia during a search of pockets at school for contraband. After brief discovery, the complaint was unfounded and qualified immunity was granted. \u201cIn addition, Judge Ho would have directed S.O.&#8217;s counsel to explain why she should not be sanctioned for filing a frivolous appeal, see Fed. R. App. P. 38\u2014if not also for \u2018conduct unbecoming a member of the bar,\u2019 see Fed. R. App. P. 46(b)-(c). As explained above, the appeal is demonstrably frivolous on the face of counsel&#8217;s briefs. Moreover, those briefs not only contain countless misspellings and grammatical errors\u2014they also appear to appeal to prejudice.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca5.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/pub\/19\/19-60650-CV0.pdf\">S.O. v. Hinds Cty. Sch. Dist.<\/a>, 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 3792 (5th Cir. Feb. 7, 2020).* (Why appeal at all? In addition, this is a published opinion.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the district court decides a Fourth Amendment case on probable cause and good faith exception, counsel on appeal has to brief both issues. Failure to brief the good faith exception here results in affirmance by waiver of the issue. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=42286\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-faith-exception","category-standards-of-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42286","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42286"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42289,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42286\/revisions\/42289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}