{"id":6199,"date":"2012-04-05T10:31:05","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T09:48:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T09:48:30","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6199","title":{"rendered":"CA5: Inmate stated claim for body cavity search in view of female guards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pro se prison inmate\u2019s \u00a7 1983 case \u201calleged that he was subjected to strip and visual body cavity searches in the presence of female prison employees in violation of the Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments.\u201d He stated no claim under the Eighth Amendment but he did under the Fourth: \u201cAccepting Waddleton&#8217;s allegations as true, which we must, &#8230; there was no justification, penological or otherwise, for the searches conducted in this case.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca5.uscourts.gov\/opinions%5Cunpub%5C11\/11-40055.0.wpd.pdf\">Waddleton v. Jackson<\/a>, 445 Fed. Appx. 808 (5th Cir. 2011).<\/p>\n<p>An officer who saw an apparently hand-to-hand transaction between a group of three men and an SUV that pulled up and left had reasonable suspicion to stop them on the street. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fifthcircuit.org\/PDF\/OPINIONS\/PO\/2011\/80C09C8D-FF97-4B03-B0F0-2FAD171BF240.pdf\">State v. Keller<\/a>, 77 So. 3d 378 (La. App. 5th Cir. 2011).*<\/p>\n<p>Running from the police with gun in hand is reasonable suspicion. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fifthcircuit.org\/PDF\/OPINIONS\/PO\/2011\/4D146555-FDDB-42B7-A293-CB9B38D6460A.pdf\">State v. Cummings<\/a>, 79 So. 3d 386 (La. App. 5th Cir. 2011).*<\/p>\n<p>The affidavit for the search warrant showed probable cause based on information from the CI which was significantly corroborated and defendant\u2019s criminal history and outstanding warrants. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fifthcircuit.org\/PDF\/OPINIONS\/PO\/2011\/5C0CA3F9-C43A-4CBC-BBDF-B88CECFAEAA7.pdf\">State v. Voltolina<\/a>, 77 So. 3d 1027 (La. App. 5th Cir. 2011).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6199\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6199","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}