{"id":30523,"date":"2017-12-07T11:03:28","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T16:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=30523"},"modified":"2017-12-07T11:35:07","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T16:35:07","slug":"guam-if-no-criminal-case-pending-motion-for-return-of-property-can-be-treated-as-a-new-civil-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=30523","title":{"rendered":"Guam: If no criminal case pending, motion for return of property can be treated as a new civil action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If a criminal case is not pending, a motion for return of property is treated as a new civil action, and should proceed accordingly (following state and federal cases, most recently Pristine Pre-Owned Auto, Inc. v. Courrier, 236 W. Va. 720, 783 S.E.2d 585 (2016)). Here there was an administrative seizure of medication from a veterinarian&#8217;s office. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guamsupremecourt.com\/Supreme-Court-Opinions\/images\/2017Guam15.pdf\">In re Dep&#8217;t of Health &#038; Soc. Servs.<\/a>, 2017 Guam 15, 2017 Guam 15 (Dec. 1, 2017).<\/p>\n<p>The court finds the officer\u2019s testimony credible that he saw defendant with a gun in hand for about four seconds before hiding it, and this gave reasonable suspicion for a patdown. United States v. Cross, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 193747 (N.D. Ill. Nov. 22, 2017).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a criminal case is not pending, a motion for return of property is treated as a new civil action, and should proceed accordingly (following state and federal cases, most recently Pristine Pre-Owned Auto, Inc. v. Courrier, 236 W. Va. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=30523\">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":[35,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reasonable-suspicion","category-rule-41g-return-of-property"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30523","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=30523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30531,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30523\/revisions\/30531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}