{"id":45978,"date":"2020-10-31T16:23:04","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T21:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=45978"},"modified":"2020-10-31T16:23:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T21:23:04","slug":"fl4-police-use-of-a-flashlight-isnt-itself-a-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=45978","title":{"rendered":"FL4: Police use of a flashlight isn&#8217;t itself a search"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cR.F. appeals the denial of his motion to suppress physical evidence. Because we conclude appellant was not seized for Fourth Amendment purposes where the deputy used a spotlight and a flashlight to illuminate his approach of appellant, we affirm the denial of the motion to suppress.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.4dca.org\/pre_opinion_content_download\/684807\">R.F. v. State<\/a>, 2020 Fla. App. LEXIS 15351 (Fla. 4th DCA Oct. 28, 2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pleading guilty after the suppression hearing but before decision is a waiver of the motion. <a href=\"http:\/\/nycourts.gov\/reporter\/3dseries\/2020\/2020_06172.htm\">People v. Burks<\/a>, 2020 NY Slip Op 06172, 2020 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 6382 (3d Dept. Oct. 29, 2020).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHere, the search warrant, which authorized a search of the defendant&#8217;s home for a gun, was predicated on a confidential informant&#8217;s personal observation of the defendant holding a gun outside his home, then going inside his home, and returning outside without it.\u201d That\u2019s probable cause. <a href=\"http:\/\/nycourts.gov\/reporter\/3dseries\/2020\/2020_06157.htm\">People v. Williams<\/a>, 2020 NY Slip Op 06157, 2020 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 6311 (2d Dept. Oct. 28, 2020).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cR.F. appeals the denial of his motion to suppress physical evidence. Because we conclude appellant was not seized for Fourth Amendment purposes where the deputy used a spotlight and a flashlight to illuminate his approach of appellant, we affirm the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=45978\">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":[44,51,73,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-informant-hearsay","category-plain-view","category-search","category-waiver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45978","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=45978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45979,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45978\/revisions\/45979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}