A delay of seven weeks for seeking a search warrant for a cell phone already validly seized wasn\u2019t unreasonable. Several cases approved long delays, and this is near the outer limit, but still valid. United States v. Butler, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 50713 (M.D. Fla. Mar. 24, 2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A Fourth Amendment claim can\u2019t be raised in a state habeas [a universal rule]. Clary v. State, 2020 Mont. LEXIS 866 (Mar. 24, 2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officers lacked reasonable suspicion for a defendant\u2019s probation search. His congregating with others in a high crime area, nervousness seeing the police, and allegedly seeing a rigid item in a fabric shoulder bag that could have been a gun just didn\u2019t add up to reasonable suspicion. [In other jurisdictions, this would have gone the other way.] United States v. Cole, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 50959 (N.D. Cal. Mar. 24, 2020).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A delay of seven weeks for seeking a search warrant for a cell phone already validly seized wasn\u2019t unreasonable. Several cases approved long delays, and this is near the outer limit, but still valid. United States v. Butler, 2020 U.S. … Continue reading