{"id":62658,"date":"2026-01-02T09:54:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T14:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62658"},"modified":"2026-01-02T13:35:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T18:35:28","slug":"d-s-c-issuing-magistrate-sharing-address-with-le-agency-doesnt-make-not-neutral-and-detached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62658","title":{"rendered":"D.S.C.: Issuing magistrate sharing address with LE agency doesn&#8217;t make the magistrate not &#8220;neutral and detached&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The issuing magistrate is not shown to be an adjunct law enforcement officer just because the judge shares an address with a police department. Martinez v. Wilson, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 268655 (D.S.C. Dec. 10, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The search incident of defendant\u2019s person at the time of his arrest was reasonable. The body cam also showed why a protective sweep of his motel room was valid: there was someone in the bathroom. State v. Brooks, 2025 La. App. LEXIS 2556 (La. App. 5 Cir Dec. 29, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officers in your house for execution of a search warrant who follow you around for safety purposes have not necessarily curtailed your freedom of movement. United States v. Coffelt, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 268383 (W.D.N.Y. Dec. 31, 2025).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The issuing magistrate is not shown to be an adjunct law enforcement officer just because the judge shares an address with a police department. Martinez v. Wilson, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 268655 (D.S.C. Dec. 10, 2025). The search incident of &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62658\">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":[91,26,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neutral-and-detached-magistrate","category-search-incident","category-seizure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62658","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=62658"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62664,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62658\/revisions\/62664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}