VA: Firefighters could call ME and police for dead body

When firefighters entered defendant’s property in response to a fire call, they found a body. It was within the scope of the fire entry to call the police and medical examiner. “Thus, all that the firefighters observed was no longer private, but rather, was known to the government and appellant had no reasonable expectation of privacy that prevented the government from acting on that knowledge. No warrant was required for the firefighters to pass along what they had observed to other government officials, including the police, nor was a warrant required to allow the police to stand in the same location as the firefighters given the limited time frame at issue.” Grangruth v. Commonwealth, 2022 Va. App. LEXIS 96 (April 5, 2022) (unpublished).

Defendant’s home detention agreement on parole included a waiver of his Fourth Amendment and state constitutional rights against search and seizure, and it was valid. State v. Fox, 2022 Ind. App. LEXIS 104 (Apr. 6, 2022).*

All defendant shows in his Franks challenge was that the officer should have had doubts about something, but not that he actually did, and that’s not enough of a showing. United States v. Collins, 2022 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 63941 (W.D.Ky. Apr. 6, 2022).*

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