{"id":62772,"date":"2026-01-12T10:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62772"},"modified":"2026-01-12T10:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:49:10","slug":"d-d-c-a-private-tow-didnt-violate-us-capitol-police-inventory-policy-or-4a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62772","title":{"rendered":"D.D.C.: A private tow didn’t violate US Capitol Police inventory policy or 4A"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The US Capitol Police inventory policy was followed here, and the motion to suppress is denied. The fact a private company towed the vehicle is of no moment to the policy or the Fourth Amendment. United States v. Johnson<\/a>, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 4591 (D.D.C. Jan. 9, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe temporal proximity and intervening-circumstances factors weigh heavily in Talton’s favor. As the record demonstrates, Fatching arrived on scene the morning of May 19, 2025, conducted the search shortly thereafter, seized the firearm, arrested Talton, and transported him to the Genesee County Jail. Sergeant Duhart interviewed Talton the next morning after he confirmed he was no longer under the influence of alcohol. A one-day delay between his unlawful arrest and confession, where he remained in custody the entire time and did not talk to a lawyer, favors suppression. \u2026 \u201cMoreover, the record does not show ‘any meaningful intervening event’ between the illegal [search] and [Defendant’s] confession.\u2019 Kaupp, 538 U.S. at 633 (quoting Taylor v. Alabama, 457 U.S. 687, 691 (1982)).\u201d Therefore, considering the brief time between the illegal search and the confession and because \u2018there was no intervening event of significance whatsoever,\u2019 it is clear that Talton’s confession arose as a result of the illegal search and his subsequent arrest. Brown, 422 U.S. at 604. Talton’s confession will be suppressed.\u201d United States v. Talton, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 4563 (E.D. Mich. Jan. 9, 2026).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The US Capitol Police inventory policy was followed here, and the motion to suppress is denied. The fact a private company towed the vehicle is of no moment to the policy or the Fourth Amendment. United States v. Johnson, 2026 … Continue reading →<\/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":[75,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-attenuation","category-inventory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62772","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=62772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62773,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62772\/revisions\/62773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}