{"id":63908,"date":"2026-04-25T11:59:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T16:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63908"},"modified":"2026-04-25T11:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T16:59:13","slug":"ca9-illegal-arrest-doesnt-justify-dismissal-of-indictment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63908","title":{"rendered":"CA9: Illegal arrest doesn&#8217;t justify dismissal of indictment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An illegal arrest doesn\u2019t justify dismissing an indictment. He also did not show outrageous governmental conduct. <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov\/datastore\/memoranda\/2026\/04\/22\/24-7218.pdf\">United States v. Colfax<\/a>, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 11426 (9th Cir. Apr. 22, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The officer knew Dodge pickup trucks, and the registration on file didn\u2019t match the vehicle year or engine sound. The stop was reasonable. United States v. Langston, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 88446 (S.D. Ind. Apr. 21, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Fourth Amendment validity of an immigration arrest has nothing to do with deportability (I.N.S. v. Lopez-Mendoza). Masabanda v. Anda-Ybarra, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 88322 (W.D. Tex. Apr. 22, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on a license plate and tint violation, officer stopped the car which smelled of marijuana. Defendants&#8217; challenging behavior, physical resistance to detention, interference with law enforcement efforts, and ultimate flight from the scene gave the officers probable cause to believe that the vehicle contained contraband or evidence of a crime, so that the warrantless search of the vehicle was lawful under the automobile exception. People v. Henderickson, 2026 V.I. LEXIS 16 (Super. Ct. Apr. 10, 2026).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An illegal arrest doesn\u2019t justify dismissing an indictment. He also did not show outrageous governmental conduct. United States v. Colfax, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 11426 (9th Cir. Apr. 22, 2026). The officer knew Dodge pickup trucks, and the registration on &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63908\">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":[50,36,107,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrest-or-entry-on-arrest","category-automobile-exception","category-immigration-arrests","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63908","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=63908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63909,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63908\/revisions\/63909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}