{"id":62213,"date":"2025-10-28T07:49:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T12:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62213"},"modified":"2025-10-29T08:59:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T13:59:57","slug":"ga-se-to-photograph-a-tattoo-was-reasonable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62213","title":{"rendered":"GA: SW to photograph a tattoo was reasonable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A search warrant to photograph a tattoo was reasonable. Here, a sex assault assailant was described as having a particular tattoo, and defendant was the suspect. They found a matching tattoo. <a href=\"https:\/\/efast.gaappeals.us\/download?filingId=cf0a38f1-d61a-4417-a08c-bac55548ff03\">Grier v. State<\/a>, 2025 Ga. App. LEXIS 484 (Oct. 27, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA show of authority alone, as noted, does not constitute a seizure. An individual must submit to it. Teixera answered at least one of Officer Lee&#8217;s questions and momentarily held his hands up after being ordered to do so. But less than 15 seconds after the officers pulled up next to him, Teixera fled. His temporary acquiescence did not constitute a submission to authority. \u2026 Teixera was not seized until the officers, after pursuit, subdued him on Erie Avenue.\u201d United States v. Teixera, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 210630 (E.D. Pa. Oct. 27, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plaintiff sued over police entering their apartment instead of the real target downstairs. The search warrant showed probable cause for the premises. They were there ten minutes and left. The claim was properly dismissed. Medina v. Stevens, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 28053 (2d Cir. Oct. 27, 2025).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A search warrant to photograph a tattoo was reasonable. Here, a sex assault assailant was described as having a particular tattoo, and defendant was the suspect. They found a matching tattoo. Grier v. State, 2025 Ga. App. LEXIS 484 (Oct. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62213\">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":[63,69,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reasonableness","category-seizure","category-warrant-execution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62213","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=62213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62215,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62213\/revisions\/62215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}