{"id":64932,"date":"2026-10-02T10:44:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T15:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64932"},"modified":"2026-10-02T10:44:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T15:44:15","slug":"fl3-exclusion-of-evidence-is-a-separate-question-from-whether-4a-was-violated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64932","title":{"rendered":"FL3: Exclusion of evidence is a separate question from whether 4A was violated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The question of exclusion of the evidence is always separate from whether the Fourth Amendment was violated. <a href=\"https:\/\/flcourts-media.flcourts.gov\/content\/download\/2496066\/opinion\/Opinion_2025-1004.pdf\">Mercado v. State<\/a>, 2026 Fla. App. LEXIS 7697 (Fla. 3d DCA Oct. 1, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant\u2019s guilty plea waived his search claim in his murder case. It didn\u2019t matter that he wasn\u2019t told he was waiving it. State v. Baker, 2026-Ohio-3875 (8th Dist. Oct. 1, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reasonable suspicion wasn\u2019t shown from defendant\u2019s slight criminal history, being in an alleged high crime area, and wearing a Washington Nationals hat which the Denver PD associates with gang activity [not to mention the defendant\u2019s last name is Washington]. On the totality, there was no reasonable suspicion for a frisk of him or the car. He was always compliant and respectful to the officers and made no furtive movements. United States v. Washington, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 30067 (10th Cir. Oct. 1, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The question of exclusion of the evidence is always separate from whether the Fourth Amendment was violated. Mercado v. State, 2026 Fla. App. LEXIS 7697 (Fla. 3d DCA Oct. 1, 2026). Defendant\u2019s guilty plea waived his search claim in his &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64932\">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":[35,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reasonable-suspicion","category-waiver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64932","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=64932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64933,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64932\/revisions\/64933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}