{"id":32772,"date":"2018-04-24T00:00:34","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T05:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=32772"},"modified":"2018-04-23T21:47:33","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T02:47:33","slug":"d-minn-citizen-informant-wasnt-material-witness-under-roviaro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=32772","title":{"rendered":"D.Minn.: Citizen informant wasn&#8217;t material witness under <em>Roviaro<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A citizen informant who called police to say that a store video shown on the news looked like defendant wasn\u2019t a material witness at trial under Roviaro. The government wasn\u2019t calling the person, and defendant didn\u2019t show a reason to. United States v. Moman, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 66923 (D. Minn. Apr. 20, 2018).<\/p>\n<p>Defendant contended he wasn\u2019t the driver of the vehicle involved, but the court finds the officers\u2019 testimony persuasive and that defendant was the driver. Therefore, there was probable cause for his arrest. United States v. Jivens, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 66255 (S.D. Ga. Mar. 30, 2018),* adopted, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 65846 (S.D. Ga. Apr. 18, 2018).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A citizen informant who called police to say that a store video shown on the news looked like defendant wasn\u2019t a material witness at trial under Roviaro. The government wasn\u2019t calling the person, and defendant didn\u2019t show a reason to. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=32772\">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":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-informant-hearsay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32772","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=32772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32773,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32772\/revisions\/32773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}