{"id":62758,"date":"2026-01-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62758"},"modified":"2026-01-11T00:47:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:47:57","slug":"de-judge-issuing-track-and-track-order-didnt-have-to-recuse-from-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62758","title":{"rendered":"DE: Judge issuing track and trace order didn&#8217;t have to recuse from trial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The fact \u201cthe judge who presided over trial had signed a pen register or \u2018track and trace\u2019 warrant before [defendant\u2019s] arrest\u201d didn\u2019t require recusal. The state court had already held issuing a search warrant didn\u2019t require recusal either. <a href=\"https:\/\/courts.delaware.gov\/Opinions\/Download.aspx?id=389900\">Fayton v. State<\/a>, 2026 Del. LEXIS 9 (Jan. 9, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was reasonable suspicion for defendant\u2019s stop as a trespasser on hotel property. United States v. Harris, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 566 (4th Cir. Jan. 9, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fact two juvenile sex trafficking victims had different recollections of things doesn\u2019t show a Franks violation. Also, \u201cThe mere fact that one of the victims had juvenile offenses would not have undercut the weight of probable cause from evidence like the Facebook messages, the prostitution ad, the online pictures of the victims, and the victims&#8217; personal testimony. In short, the warrants&#8217; \u2018issuance did not hinge on [the] detail\u2019 of these missing juvenile offenses.\u201d Defendant also doesn\u2019t show that the affiant even knew about them. United States v. Richards, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 583 (6th Cir. Jan. 9, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fact \u201cthe judge who presided over trial had signed a pen register or \u2018track and trace\u2019 warrant before [defendant\u2019s] arrest\u201d didn\u2019t require recusal. The state court had already held issuing a search warrant didn\u2019t require recusal either. Fayton v. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62758\">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":[21,91,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-franks-doctrine","category-neutral-and-detached-magistrate","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62758","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=62758"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62760,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62758\/revisions\/62760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}