{"id":31274,"date":"2018-01-11T09:09:05","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T14:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=31274"},"modified":"2018-01-11T09:09:05","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T14:09:05","slug":"ca5-leos-lie-to-fbi-about-leaked-sw-was-a-crime-even-though-fbi-knew-he-was-lying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=31274","title":{"rendered":"CA5: LEO&#8217;s lie to FBI about leaked SW was a crime even though FBI knew he was lying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A police officer leaked the existence of an FBI investigation that enabled the target of a search warrant to move his stash. \u201cHis statement [to the FBI] denying that he had disclosed the investigation was capable of influencing the FBI&#8217;s decision. It is irrelevant that the FBI ignored his denial.\u201d Conviction under \u00a7 1001 affirmed. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca5.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/unpub\/17\/17-50092.0.pdf\">United States v. French<\/a>, 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 512 (5th Cir. Jan. 9, 2018) (Treatise \u00a7 61.03 n.4).<\/p>\n<p>Defendant\u2019s probation search was conducted reasonably and at a reasonable time considering his curfew, so it will not be suppressed. United States v. Plemmons, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 214704 (W.D. N.C. Dec. 11, 2017).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A police officer leaked the existence of an FBI investigation that enabled the target of a search warrant to move his stash. \u201cHis statement [to the FBI] denying that he had disclosed the investigation was capable of influencing the FBI&#8217;s &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=31274\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31274","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=31274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31275,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31274\/revisions\/31275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}