{"id":62948,"date":"2026-01-29T10:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T15:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62948"},"modified":"2026-01-29T10:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T15:22:14","slug":"ar-asking-for-sw-before-opening-the-door-is-not-obstructing-governmental-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62948","title":{"rendered":"AR: Asking for SW before opening the door is not obstructing governmental operations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Asking for a search warrant before opening the door is not obstructing governmental operations. The motion for directed verdict should have been granted. This is not active resistance. <a href=\"https:\/\/opinions.arcourts.gov\/ark\/courtofappeals\/en\/524109\/1\/document.do\">Keeton v. State<\/a>, 2026 Ark. App. 53 (Jan. 28, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Heck bar applies to state tort claims, too. C.A.L. v. State, 2026 N.J. LEXIS 73 (Jan. 27, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Failure to move to suppress in the trial court and get a ruling is waiver. Finney v. State, 2026 Del. LEXIS 33 (Jan. 28, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant\u2019s BAC consent may not have complied with statute, but it was reasonable under the Fourth Amendment, all things considered. State v. Melcher, 2026 Iowa App. LEXIS 57 (Jan. 28, 2026).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asking for a search warrant before opening the door is not obstructing governmental operations. The motion for directed verdict should have been granted. This is not active resistance. Keeton v. State, 2026 Ark. App. 53 (Jan. 28, 2026). The Heck &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62948\">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":[126,63,129,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issue-preclusion","category-reasonableness","category-waiver","category-warrant-execution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62948","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=62948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62949,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62948\/revisions\/62949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}