{"id":31892,"date":"2018-02-19T04:44:22","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T09:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=31892"},"modified":"2018-02-19T04:44:59","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T09:44:59","slug":"oh8-sw-for-biological-andor-forensic-evidence-in-a-sex-crime-permitted-seizure-of-a-towel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=31892","title":{"rendered":"OH8: SW for &#8220;biological and\/or forensic evidence&#8221; in a sex crime permitted seizure of a towel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The search warrant specifically stated that police would search for items that might have biological and\/or forensic material and any other evidence tending to establish rape, but it didn\u2019t specify a towel. The towel seized fell under the scope of the search warrant because it was an item that could contain biological and\/or forensic material or could be other evidence tending to establish the crime of rape which is what the search warrant sought. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourt.ohio.gov\/rod\/docs\/pdf\/8\/2018\/2018-Ohio-578.pdf\">State v. Harris<\/a>, 2018-Ohio-578, 2018 Ohio App. LEXIS 603 (8th Dist. Feb. 15, 2018).* <\/p>\n<p>Another Playpen warrant sustained. United States v. Stepus, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 25853 (D. Mass. Feb. 16, 2018).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The search warrant specifically stated that police would search for items that might have biological and\/or forensic material and any other evidence tending to establish rape, but it didn\u2019t specify a towel. The towel seized fell under the scope of &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=31892\">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":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31892","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=31892"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31894,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31892\/revisions\/31894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}