{"id":64449,"date":"2026-07-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64449"},"modified":"2026-07-12T09:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T14:57:13","slug":"oh7-magistrate-signing-sw-for-something-outside-of-territorial-jurisdiction-not-a-4a-violation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64449","title":{"rendered":"OH7: Magistrate signing SW for something outside of territorial jurisdiction not a 4A violation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A municipal court judge issuing a search warrant for something outside his or her territorial jurisdiction is a nonfundamental error that does not require suppression of the evidence. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.ohio.gov\/rod\/docs\/pdf\/7\/2026\/2026-Ohio-2604.pdf\">State v. Mele<\/a>, 2026-Ohio-2604, 2026 Ohio App. LEXIS 2537 (7th Dist. July 2, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trash pulls from the containers where the driveway met the street were reasonable, despite the curtilage argument. There, not so much curtilage. There was probable cause for the warrant. United States v. Savage, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 153234 (W.D. Pa. July 10, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGray argues that probable cause did not exist to search his apartment because the warrant&#8217;s supporting affidavit failed to demonstrate a sufficient link between illicit drug activity and the premises. Yet even if we assume that the affidavit lacked probable cause, the good-faith exception applies.\u201d [It did show probable cause.] United States v. Gray, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 20290 (6th Cir. July 9, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A municipal court judge issuing a search warrant for something outside his or her territorial jurisdiction is a nonfundamental error that does not require suppression of the evidence. State v. Mele, 2026-Ohio-2604, 2026 Ohio App. LEXIS 2537 (7th Dist. July &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64449\">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":[19,11,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curtilage","category-good-faith-exception","category-neutral-and-detached-magistrate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64449","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=64449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64450,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64449\/revisions\/64450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}