{"id":45933,"date":"2020-10-26T06:50:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T11:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=45933"},"modified":"2020-10-26T06:50:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T11:50:42","slug":"ca5-examination-of-addresses-on-package-was-reasonable-and-led-to-rs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=45933","title":{"rendered":"CA5: Examination of addresses on package was reasonable and led to RS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There was reasonable suspicion for detaining this package based on the lack of veracity of the delivery and return addresses. Examination of the package in the mail sorting system was not a search or seizure. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca5.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/unpub\/17\/17-60285.0.pdf\">United States v. Jones<\/a>, 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 33525 (5th Cir. Oct. 23, 2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plaintiff\u2019s claim of unlawful retention of her property isn\u2019t a separate Fourth Amendment claim. \u201c[T]he government&#8217;s \u2018failure to return the items does not \u2026 state a separate Fourth Amendment claim of unreasonable seizure.\u2019\u201d Here, the initial seizure wasn\u2019t contested. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ca2.uscourts.gov\/decisions\/isysquery\/4da19acf-4f68-4747-8ecd-97d5d6208527\/9\/doc\/19-2431_so.pdf#xml=https:\/\/www.ca2.uscourts.gov\/decisions\/isysquery\/4da19acf-4f68-4747-8ecd-97d5d6208527\/9\/hilite\/\">Bennett v. Dutchess Cty.<\/a>, 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 33539 (2d Cir. Oct. 22, 2020).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was reasonable suspicion for detaining this package based on the lack of veracity of the delivery and return addresses. Examination of the package in the mail sorting system was not a search or seizure. United States v. Jones, 2020 &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=45933\">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":[99,35,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mail-and-packages","category-reasonable-suspicion","category-rule-41g-return-of-property"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45933","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=45933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45934,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45933\/revisions\/45934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}