{"id":41298,"date":"2019-12-20T21:35:50","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T02:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=41298"},"modified":"2019-12-20T21:35:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T02:35:50","slug":"ca8-sw-for-mj-in-urine-wasnt-stale-by-eight-day-wait-to-execute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=41298","title":{"rendered":"CA8: SW for MJ in urine wasn&#8217;t stale by eight day wait to execute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The search warrant for defendant\u2019s urine sample to prove he had marijuana in his system wasn\u2019t stale after eight days. Staleness is determined by whether the probable cause for the warrant dissipates before execution. There was testimony in the record that marijuana can remain in the system of a chronic user for up to two months. Therefore, the warrant wasn\u2019t stale. <a href=\"http:\/\/media.ca8.uscourts.gov\/opndir\/19\/12\/182700P.pdf\">United States v. Leick<\/a>, 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 37256 (8th Cir. Dec. 17, 2019).<\/p>\n<p>Plaintiff\u2019s \u00a7 1983 Fourth Amendment claim is time barred under Arizona\u2019s two year statute of limitations. <a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov\/datastore\/memoranda\/2019\/12\/17\/18-17338.pdf\">Byrd v. McKinney<\/a>, 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 37266 (9th Cir. Dec. 17, 2019).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The search warrant for defendant\u2019s urine sample to prove he had marijuana in his system wasn\u2019t stale after eight days. Staleness is determined by whether the probable cause for the warrant dissipates before execution. There was testimony in the record &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=41298\">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":[45,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-45","category-standards-of-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41298","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=41298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41299,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41298\/revisions\/41299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}