{"id":34736,"date":"2018-09-14T07:20:41","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T12:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=34736"},"modified":"2018-09-14T07:50:35","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T12:50:35","slug":"pa-private-university-public-safety-conducted-dorm-searches-for-drugs-after-drug-induced-fight-it-was-a-private-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=34736","title":{"rendered":"PA: Private university public safety conducted dorm searches for drugs after drug induced fight; it was a private search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant was a student at Villanova University. There was a violent confrontation in a dorm between students who had admitted ingesting likely too much LSD. The University\u2019s Public Safety Department and University officials conducted dorm searches. They had no arrest powers, and they carried no firearms or handcuffs. They turned over what they found to the local police, and defendant was prosecuted. The search was a private search. The local police weren\u2019t in on the searches although the product came to them. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/Opinion%20%20Affirmed%20%2010369612241933886.pdf?cb=1\">Commonwealth v. Yim<\/a>, 2018 PA Super 253, 2018 Pa. Super. LEXIS 1007 (Sep. 12, 2018).<\/p>\n<p>Defendant can\u2019t move to suppress his voice on a phone call without filing an affidavit with the motion that it\u2019s his voice. He can\u2019t rely on the government\u2019s assertion that it\u2019s him. United States v. Loera, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 155544 (E.D. N.Y. Sep. 12, 2018).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant was a student at Villanova University. There was a violent confrontation in a dorm between students who had admitted ingesting likely too much LSD. The University\u2019s Public Safety Department and University officials conducted dorm searches. They had no arrest &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=34736\">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":[104,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-burden-of-pleading","category-private-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34736","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=34736"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34738,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34736\/revisions\/34738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}