{"id":64572,"date":"2026-08-02T11:11:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T16:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64572"},"modified":"2026-08-02T11:11:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T16:11:28","slug":"ca7-controlled-buy-justified-stop-dog-sniff-and-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64572","title":{"rendered":"CA7: Controlled buy justified stop, dog sniff, and search"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The controlled buy off defendant gave probable cause to search his car after he left it, irrespective of an alleged pretextual traffic stop and use of a drug dog. <a href=\"https:\/\/media.ca7.uscourts.gov\/cgi-bin\/OpinionsWeb\/processWebInputExternal.pl?Submit=Display&amp;Path=Y2026\/D07-29\/C:25-2278:J:Kolar:aut:T:fnOp:N:3582551:S:0\">United States v. Randle<\/a>, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 22657 (7th Cir. July 29, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis information, in and of itself, created probable cause that Defendant was involved in the sale of controlled substances and, further, that evidence of such sales would be at the Y Street Residence.\u201d United States v. Terry, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 167819 (D. Neb. July 9, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stone v. Powell doesn\u2019t apply to a Fifth Amendment due process claim. As for unreasonable application of SCOTUS cases, there wasn\u2019t. Hadley v. Sec&#8217;y, Dep&#8217;t of Corr., 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 22622 (11th Cir. July 29, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant admits he abandoned his gun, so the question is whether he was unreasonably seized before that. He wasn\u2019t. United States v. Bailey, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 168051 (N.D. Ga. June 3, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The controlled buy off defendant gave probable cause to search his car after he left it, irrespective of an alleged pretextual traffic stop and use of a drug dog. United States v. Randle, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 22657 (7th Cir. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64572\">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":[48,36,27,126,114,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-automobile-exception","category-dog-sniff","category-issue-preclusion","category-privileges","category-probable-cause"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64572","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=64572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64573,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64572\/revisions\/64573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}