{"id":21970,"date":"2016-05-02T07:02:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T12:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=21970"},"modified":"2016-05-02T07:02:35","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T12:02:35","slug":"vi-where-search-was-irrelevant-to-the-charge-its-moot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=21970","title":{"rendered":"VI: Where search was irrelevant to the charge it&#8217;s moot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The search of defendant\u2019s car is irrelevant to the charge against her, so it doesn\u2019t matter. It also doesn\u2019t matter that the courtroom flag is a \u201ccivil\u201d or \u201cwartime\u201d flag since there is no legal difference. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visuperiorcourt.org\/opinions\/pdfs\/MEMORANDUM%20OPINION%20CHRISTAL%20FLOYD.pdf\">People v. Floyd<\/a>, 2016 V.I. LEXIS 40 (Super.Ct. April 19, 2016).<\/p>\n<p>Under state law, reasonable suspicion is required for a probation search. Whether plaintiff\u2019s probation fees had to be paid by the end of the term of probation wasn\u2019t clear to him or the probation officer, so the probation officer\u2019s actions were subject to qualified immunity. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca4.uscourts.gov\/Opinions\/Published\/151110.P.pdf\">Jones v. Chandrasuwan<\/a>, 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 7704 (4th Cir. April 28, 2016).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The search of defendant\u2019s car is irrelevant to the charge against her, so it doesn\u2019t matter. It also doesn\u2019t matter that the courtroom flag is a \u201ccivil\u201d or \u201cwartime\u201d flag since there is no legal difference. People v. Floyd, 2016 &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=21970\">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":[66,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-burden-of-proof","category-probationparole-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21970","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=21970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21971,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21970\/revisions\/21971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}