{"id":64681,"date":"2026-08-18T10:34:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T15:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64681"},"modified":"2026-08-19T10:35:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T15:35:30","slug":"ca11-sd-card-in-a-video-voyeur-device-placed-in-anothers-bedroom-has-no-rep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64681","title":{"rendered":"CA11: SD card in a video voyeur device placed in another’s bedroom has no REP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cThis appeal is about the reasonable expectation of privacy–or the lack thereof. Kenneth Mininger secretly placed video cameras in shared rooms in his ex-wife’s house. He used these cameras to record his ex-wife’s minor daughter undressing. The police examined the SD cards attached to these cameras without a warrant and, based on the cards’ contents, obtained a warrant for Mininger’s other devices. On those devices, law enforcement found large amounts of child sexual abuse material for which Mininger was convicted. He brings a Fourth Amendment challenge, arguing that the district court should have suppressed all of this evidence and that the resulting warrant was overbroad. But, in large part because he had no reasonable expectation of privacy in the SD cards he had placed, unsecured, in a shared room in his ex-wife’s house, Mininger’s Fourth Amendment arguments fail. Accordingly, we affirm his convictions.\u201d United States v. Mininger<\/a>, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 24934 (11th Cir. Aug. 18, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Defendant\u2019s permission to stay in the property searched was in dispute, and he failed to show his standing. State v. Jones, 2026 Mo. App. LEXIS 624 (Aug. 18, 2026).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThis appeal is about the reasonable expectation of privacy–or the lack thereof. Kenneth Mininger secretly placed video cameras in shared rooms in his ex-wife’s house. He used these cameras to record his ex-wife’s minor daughter undressing. The police examined the … Continue reading →<\/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":[18,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reasonable-expectation-of-privacy","category-standing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64681","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=64681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64682,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64681\/revisions\/64682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}