{"id":38436,"date":"2019-07-05T06:35:32","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T11:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=38436"},"modified":"2019-07-05T06:35:32","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T11:35:32","slug":"tx-art-38-23-does-not-extend-4a-to-private-searches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=38436","title":{"rendered":"TX: Art. 38.23 does not extend 4A to private searches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe disavow the idea that Article 38.23 extends the Fourth Amendment to private citizens acting in a private capacity. We reaffirm that the Fourth Amendment is a restraint on government and that it does not apply to private individuals who are acting as such. The court of appeals correctly held that Saenz&#8217;s search of Appellee&#8217;s phone was not a violation of the Fourth Amendment because Saenz was acting as a private individual when he looked at the pictures.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/search.txcourts.gov\/SearchMedia.aspx?MediaVersionID=7fc49d96-3055-4719-840c-4350e48caded&#038;coa=coscca&#038;DT=OPINION&#038;MediaID=6bf30a80-2332-42d3-af62-19c9b4ade8e1\">Ruiz v. State<\/a>, 2019 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 664 (July 3, 2019).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe disavow the idea that Article 38.23 extends the Fourth Amendment to private citizens acting in a private capacity. We reaffirm that the Fourth Amendment is a restraint on government and that it does not apply to private individuals who &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=38436\">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":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-private-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38436","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=38436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38437,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38436\/revisions\/38437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}