{"id":62254,"date":"2025-11-06T10:20:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T15:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62254"},"modified":"2025-11-06T12:03:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T17:03:51","slug":"fl4-welfare-check-entry-valid-despite-mixed-motives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62254","title":{"rendered":"FL4: Welfare check entry valid despite mixed motives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A welfare check that is objectively reasonable isn\u2019t unreasonable because of a mixed motive to arrest if necessary. <a href=\"https:\/\/flcourts-media.flcourts.gov\/content\/download\/2471066\/opinion\/Opinion_2024-2490.pdf\">State v. Leiby<\/a>, 2025 Fla. App. LEXIS 8339 (Fla. 4th DCA Nov. 5, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The police had (plenty) of probable cause to stop defendant for a homicide. The car likely was the one involved and it was his. Shuler v. State, 2025 Md. App. LEXIS 909 (Oct. 31, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant\u2019s Franks challenge fails. He simply doesn\u2019t show a material falsity. United States v. McCullough, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 215232 (W.D. Wash. Oct. 31, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendants are accused of a cocaine conspiracy of trafficking from South America to Europe through the US. The government obtained information from European counties via MLAT, and whatever assistance they gave to help gather information didn\u2019t violate the Fourth Amendment.<br \/>United States v. Gogic, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 215187 (E.D.N.Y. Oct. 31, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A welfare check that is objectively reasonable isn\u2019t unreasonable because of a mixed motive to arrest if necessary. State v. Leiby, 2025 Fla. App. LEXIS 8339 (Fla. 4th DCA Nov. 5, 2025). The police had (plenty) of probable cause to &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62254\">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":[74,97,21,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-caretaking-function","category-foreign-searches","category-franks-doctrine","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62254","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=62254"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62264,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62254\/revisions\/62264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}