{"id":61424,"date":"2025-07-07T08:18:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T13:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61424"},"modified":"2025-07-07T09:48:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T14:48:40","slug":"ca3-driveway-was-not-curtilage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61424","title":{"rendered":"CA3: Driveway was not curtilage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Defendant\u2019s driveway was not curtilage, so his stop and ultimate search of the car was not in violation of the Fourth Amendment. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ca4.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/247065.U.pdf\">United States v. Moses<\/a>, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 16484 (3d Cir. July 3, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>De minimis force, even grabbing or choking that leaves only minor injuries, is not excessive force. Glenn v. Britt, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 16402 (11th Cir. July 3, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was a fair probability evidence would be found on defendant\u2019s phone concerning an infant death about two weeks earlier. Therefore, the warrant was not stale. State v. White, 2025 S.C. App. LEXIS 42 (July 2, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The officer\u2019s statement that defendant had to give a breath sample wasn\u2019t material. \u201cGiven that Allen had no constitutional right to refuse the breathalyzer test, the validity of his consent was legally immaterial for purposes of his suppression motion.\u201d State v. Allen, 2025-Ohio-2353 (2d Dist. July 3, 2025).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant\u2019s driveway was not curtilage, so his stop and ultimate search of the car was not in violation of the Fourth Amendment. United States v. Moses, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 16484 (3d Cir. July 3, 2025). De minimis force, even &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61424\">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":[36,24,19,52,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile-exception","category-consent","category-curtilage","category-excessive-force","category-probable-cause"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61424","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=61424"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61426,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61424\/revisions\/61426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}