{"id":20577,"date":"2016-01-30T11:34:51","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T16:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20577"},"modified":"2016-01-30T11:34:51","modified_gmt":"2016-01-30T16:34:51","slug":"sc-reading-a-computer-sn-was-a-search-under-hicks-but-it-was-permitted-under-a-valid-probation-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20577","title":{"rendered":"SC: Reading a computer SN was a &#8220;search&#8221; under Hicks, but it was permitted under a valid probation search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant was on probation and believed to be involved in a murder where a red widescreen Acer laptop was taken. Probation officers went to his house to talk to him with reasonable suspicion, and he was sitting there with a red widescreen Acer laptop in his lap. The likelihood that it was taken during the murder was high. Officers checked the serial number and it matched. Reading the serial number was a search under Arizona v. Hicks, but it was reasonable because it was done during a probation search with proper justification. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judicial.state.sc.us\/opinions\/HTMLFiles\/COA\/5377.pdf\">State v. Edwards<\/a>, 2016 S.C. App. LEXIS 4 (Jan. 27, 2016).<\/p>\n<p>Defendant\u2019s arrest for bank robbery was premised on a stop after following the tracking device. There was no good description of the robbers other than the car, and there was the car with the tracking device inside. United States v. Bell, 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 8254 (D.Nev. Jan. 25, 2016).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant was on probation and believed to be involved in a murder where a red widescreen Acer laptop was taken. Probation officers went to his house to talk to him with reasonable suspicion, and he was sitting there with a &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20577\">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":[58,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-probationparole-search","category-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20578,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20577\/revisions\/20578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}