{"id":63980,"date":"2026-05-02T15:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T20:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63980"},"modified":"2026-05-02T15:18:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T20:18:00","slug":"ca4-that-ptf-charged-with-witness-intimidation-didnt-do-it-again-wasnt-material-for-franks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63980","title":{"rendered":"CA4: That ptf charged with witness intimidation didn&#8217;t do it again wasn&#8217;t material for Franks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Defendant was charged with witness intimidation for contact with a witness in a criminal case of his. That charge was later dropped, and he sued. Defendants didn\u2019t violate Franks by not mentioning that he never did it again. That\u2019s not material. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ca4.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/251729.U.pdf\">Brown v. Lott<\/a>, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 12714 (4th Cir. Apr. 28, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c[T]he four confidential informants and one anonymous tipster are reliable, corroborated by independent evidence and each other, and support finding probable cause. Three informants have a history of providing reliable information. \u2026 Further, three informants provided information against their penal interests by describing their personal involvement with Velisek, so those statements are \u2018presumptively credible.\u2019\u201d United States v. Velisek, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 96136 (D. Minn. May 1, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court\u2019s clarifying question asked during the suppression hearing did not violate due process. Courts can ask some questions, and there was no objection at the time. United States v. Neel, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 12681 (11th Cir. May 1, 2026).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant was charged with witness intimidation for contact with a witness in a criminal case of his. That charge was later dropped, and he sued. Defendants didn\u2019t violate Franks by not mentioning that he never did it again. That\u2019s not &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63980\">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":[21,44,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-franks-doctrine","category-informant-hearsay","category-suppression-hearings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63980","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=63980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63981,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63980\/revisions\/63981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}