{"id":55577,"date":"2023-08-11T12:11:48","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T17:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=55577"},"modified":"2023-08-11T17:03:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T22:03:56","slug":"ny-albany-text-message-confession-to-molestation-to-wife-was-still-covered-by-marital-privilege-when-she-disclosed-to-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=55577","title":{"rendered":"NY Albany: Text message confession to molestation to wife was still covered by marital privilege when she disclosed to police"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Defendant confessed to his wife by text message to molestation of his nephew. Despite her consenting to turn it over to the police, he had a reasonable expectation of privacy in the message and marital privilege still applied. <a href=\"https:\/\/nycourts.gov\/reporter\/3dseries\/2023\/2023_23246.htm\">People v. Lucas<\/a>, 2023 NY Slip Op 23246, 2023 N.Y. Misc. LEXIS 3980 (Albany Co. Aug. 8, 2023).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even if defense counsel didn\u2019t read the affidavit for search warrant, defendant isn\u2019t entitled to relief without showing that he would have prevailed on a motion to suppress. Martre v. Watson, 2023 U.S. App. LEXIS 20594 (6th Cir. Aug. 8, 2023).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant claims an alleged chain of custody violation is a suppression issue, but it\u2019s not. United States v. Tuttle, 2023 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 138187 (D. Neb. Aug. 7, 2023).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no basis for concluding that the magistrate was misled in the search warrant affidavit. United States v. Turner, 2023 U.S. App. LEXIS 20674 (2d Cir. Aug. 9, 2023).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant confessed to his wife by text message to molestation of his nephew. Despite her consenting to turn it over to the police, he had a reasonable expectation of privacy in the message and marital privilege still applied. People v. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=55577\">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":[21,6,114,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-franks-doctrine","category-motion-to-suppress","category-privileges","category-third-party-doctrine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55577","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=55577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55579,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55577\/revisions\/55579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}