{"id":63527,"date":"2026-03-11T08:34:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T13:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63527"},"modified":"2026-03-11T08:34:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T13:34:45","slug":"ct-exclusionary-rule-does-not-apply-in-animal-welfare-cases-which-are-civil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63527","title":{"rendered":"CT: Exclusionary rule does not apply in animal welfare cases which are civil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The animal control officer did a welfare check on animals at a house and entered the curtilage to look in a window. The exclusionary rule does not apply in animal welfare cases. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jud.ct.gov\/external\/supapp\/Cases\/AROap\/AP237\/AP237.138.pdf\">NE Conn. Council of Gov&#8217;ts Animal Servs. ex rel. Hutchins v. Donovan<\/a>, 2026 Conn. App. LEXIS 80 (Mar. 10, 2026), citing State ex rel. Dunn v. Connelly, 228 Conn. App. 458, 325 A.3d 1159, cert. denied, 350 Conn. 933, 327 A.3d 386 (2024), cert. denied, 146 S. Ct. 119 (2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A warrant for a firearm in defendant\u2019s house issued three weeks after a road rage incident was not stale. [Guns are almost never stale.] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ca10.uscourts.gov\/sites\/ca10\/files\/opinions\/010111397315.pdf\">United States v. Becker<\/a>, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 6864 (10th Cir. Mar. 9, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant\u2019s refusal pretrial to turn over his passport or provide fingerprints without a search warrant is something the court can consider in the pretrial release inquiry. United States v. Snyder, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 48229 (D.N.D. Mar. 9, 2026).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The animal control officer did a welfare check on animals at a house and entered the curtilage to look in a window. The exclusionary rule does not apply in animal welfare cases. NE Conn. Council of Gov&#8217;ts Animal Servs. ex &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63527\">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":[14,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exclusionary-rule","category-staleness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63527","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=63527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63528,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63527\/revisions\/63528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}