{"id":64879,"date":"2026-09-26T10:05:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T15:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64879"},"modified":"2026-09-26T10:05:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T15:05:49","slug":"tn-bailbond-bounty-hunter-not-state-actor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64879","title":{"rendered":"TN: Bailbond bounty hunter not state actor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bailbonding agent\u2019s bounty hunters were not state actors in capturing defendant and searching his car. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tncourts.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/OpinionsPDFVersion\/E2025-00877-CCA-R3-CD-OPN.pdf\">State v. Dragg<\/a>, 2026 Tenn. Crim. App. LEXIS 637 (Sep. 24, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant\u2019s post-conviction petition argues defense counsel applied the wrong standard of review but it doesn\u2019t matter because he would lose anyway. Kim v. Brown, 2026 Ore. App. LEXIS 1472 (Sep. 10, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The additional \u00be hour to 2 hours to get a search warrant for defendant\u2019s blood here was exigency. State v. Adams, 2026 Ore. App. LEXIS 1427 (Sep. 23, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant was in custody at the time he was told to raise his seat cushion. It wasn\u2019t voluntary consent\u2013it was acquiescence to authority. United States v. Barron, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 29273 (9th Cir. Sep. 24, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bailbonding agent\u2019s bounty hunters were not state actors in capturing defendant and searching his car. State v. Dragg, 2026 Tenn. Crim. App. LEXIS 637 (Sep. 24, 2026). Defendant\u2019s post-conviction petition argues defense counsel applied the wrong standard of review but &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64879\">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":[24,3,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consent","category-emergency-exigency","category-ineffective-assistance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64879","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=64879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64880,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64879\/revisions\/64880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}