{"id":64694,"date":"2026-08-22T22:32:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T03:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64694"},"modified":"2026-08-23T22:37:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T03:37:24","slug":"ky-despite-lack-of-nexus-sw-sustained-under-gfe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64694","title":{"rendered":"KY: Despite lack of nexus, SW sustained under GFE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A search warrant for defendant\u2019s place was because Customs had flagged a child sex doll coming to his house. While the state supreme court held that while nexus was lacking, it remanded for determination of the good faith exception. Looking at the totality of the testimony and circumstances, the court of appeals concludes the good faith exception should apply. There was at least some evidence of nexus, and the police were not at all reckless in what they were doing. <a href=\"http:\/\/opinions.kycourts.net\/COA\/2025-CA-000899.PDF\">Commonwealth v. Master<\/a>, 2026 Ky. App. LEXIS 83 (Aug. 21, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant was stopped because he was reasonably suspected of having a murder warrant for him. The handcuffing and detention of four minutes before he was released was reasonable. McCrea v. McGill, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 183665 (D.S.C. Aug. 14, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The officer here didn\u2019t extend the stop for the dog sniff. Defendant slowed it himself a bit, and the dog was already there. And there was reasonable suspicion, too. United States v. Brown, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 24779 (5th Cir. Aug. 17, 2026).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A search warrant for defendant\u2019s place was because Customs had flagged a child sex doll coming to his house. While the state supreme court held that while nexus was lacking, it remanded for determination of the good faith exception. Looking &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64694\">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":[50,27,11,38,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrest-or-entry-on-arrest","category-dog-sniff","category-good-faith-exception","category-nexus","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64694","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=64694"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64697,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64694\/revisions\/64697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}