{"id":64956,"date":"2026-10-07T09:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T14:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64956"},"modified":"2026-10-07T09:09:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T14:09:44","slug":"va-nc-tracking-warrant-validly-led-to-conviction-in-va","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64956","title":{"rendered":"VA: NC tracking warrant validly led to conviction in VA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>North Carolina officers put a warrant approved tracker on defendant\u2019s vehicle. That out-of-state warrant led to defendant\u2019s conviction in Virginia. The out-of-state warrant was issued on probable cause, and it didn\u2019t violate the Fourth Amendment tracking him in Virginia. A tracking warrant often will cross state lines, and that&#8217;s not a constitutional violation. At the minimum, the good faith exception applies. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vacourts.gov\/static\/opinions\/opncavwp\/1156253.pdf\">Graves v. Commonwealth<\/a>, 2026 Va. App. LEXIS 533 (Oct. 6, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The investigation of whether the place to be searched is one or two dwellings has to be reasonable, not perfect. Here, whether 308 and 310 were two dwellings didn\u2019t even matter because the affidavit for warrant authorized a search of the entire premises. United States v. Wills, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 226270 (E.D. Pa. Oct. 2, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officers came to plaintiff\u2019s home with a warrant for another person who was reasonably believed to be there. Plaintiff said the wanted person wasn\u2019t there, but the officers came in anyway, and he wasn\u2019t there. The officers get qualified immunity over the entry. Hyttinen v. Frantti, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 30279 (6th Cir. Sep. 30, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina officers put a warrant approved tracker on defendant\u2019s vehicle. That out-of-state warrant led to defendant\u2019s conviction in Virginia. The out-of-state warrant was issued on probable cause, and it didn\u2019t violate the Fourth Amendment tracking him in Virginia. A &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64956\">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":[50,11,40,59,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrest-or-entry-on-arrest","category-good-faith-exception","category-qualified-immunity","category-scope-of-search","category-tracking-warrant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64956","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=64956"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64959,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64956\/revisions\/64959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}