{"id":61372,"date":"2025-06-30T08:32:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T13:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61372"},"modified":"2025-06-30T08:32:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T13:32:48","slug":"d-d-c-search-of-international-letter-in-d-c-was-valid-as-border-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61372","title":{"rendered":"D.D.C.: Search of international letter in D.C. was valid as border search"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Search of an international letter on arrival in D.C. was valid as a border search. United States v. Martin, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 123023 (D.D.C. June 27, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was reasonable suspicion for the officer\u2019s encounter with defendant who was suspected of being an armed security guard without a license to carry. Defendant wasn\u2019t restrained or disarmed, just asked a few questions. State v. Weaver, 2025-Ohio-2256 (2d Dist. June 27, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a traffic stop, the smell of marijuana was obvious as the officer walked up to the car without the windows even having been rolled down. That justified the vehicle search. Enriquez v. State, 2025 Tex. App. LEXIS 4474 (Tex. App. \u2013 Eastland June 26, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant\u2019s drug sale journal was squarely within the scope of the warrant that included documents and journals. United States v. Keller, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 15958 (9th Cir. June 27, 2025).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Search of an international letter on arrival in D.C. was valid as a border search. United States v. Martin, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 123023 (D.D.C. June 27, 2025).* There was reasonable suspicion for the officer\u2019s encounter with defendant who was &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61372\">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":[10,99,51,35,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-border-search","category-mail-and-packages","category-plain-view","category-reasonable-suspicion","category-scope-of-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61372","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=61372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61373,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61372\/revisions\/61373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}