{"id":64614,"date":"2026-08-08T10:11:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T15:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64614"},"modified":"2026-08-08T10:11:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T15:11:51","slug":"ca6-sw-in-drug-case-led-to-finding-csam-sw-was-still-particular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64614","title":{"rendered":"CA6: SW in drug case led to finding CSAM, SW was still particular"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Defendant was a suspect in a drug investigation, and they got search warrants for his place and cell phones, not knowing even how many there were or what they looked like. The warrants were with probable cause. The search for drug trafficking information led to discovery of CSAM. The warrant was still particular because suspects could use false file names to hide things. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov\/opinions.pdf\/26a0350n-06.pdf\">United States v. Metzger<\/a>, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 23553 (6th Cir. Aug. 4, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was probable cause for defendant\u2019s arrest for being involved in a fight (\u201cscrum\u201d) outside a DC nightclub. The officer\u2019s testimony differing somewhat from the bodycam, but that\u2019s not determinative because it was a mess and confusing. Even the bodycam wasn\u2019t conclusive. United States v. Ray, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 174743 (D.D.C. July 31, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government\u2019s 270 day delay in seeking a search warrant to search defendant\u2019s packages wasn\u2019t unreasonable enough to require suppression. He admittedly had a reduced privacy interest in them. United States v. Bennett, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 23661 (9th Cir. Aug. 6, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant was a suspect in a drug investigation, and they got search warrants for his place and cell phones, not knowing even how many there were or what they looked like. The warrants were with probable cause. The search for &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64614\">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":[65,20,59,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particularity","category-probable-cause","category-scope-of-search","category-warrant-execution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64614","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=64614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64615,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64614\/revisions\/64615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}