{"id":41484,"date":"2019-12-29T00:00:28","date_gmt":"2019-12-29T05:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=41484"},"modified":"2019-12-29T05:58:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-29T10:58:33","slug":"d-v-i-on-reopening-suppression-hearing-govt-proves-inevitable-discovery-of-defs-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=41484","title":{"rendered":"D.V.I.: On reopening suppression hearing, govt proves inevitable discovery of def&#8217;s DNA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=39189\">prior post<\/a>,  United States v. Wrensford, 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 138235 (D. V.I. Aug. 15, 2019), the court held that the government didn\u2019t get the benefit of inevitable discovery of defendant\u2019s DNA for lack of proof. The court reopened the suppression hearing, and the government satisfied its burden and showed by a preponderance of the evidence that it would have inevitably obtained it. United States v. Wrensford, 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 219574 (D. V.I. Dec. 22, 2019).*<\/p>\n<p>The search warrant relied on by the officers wasn\u2019t so obviously defective or without probable cause that they couldn\u2019t rely on it. Thus, qualified immunity shields them from liability. <a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov\/datastore\/memoranda\/2019\/12\/23\/18-16167.pdf\">Alba v. Cty. of Tulare<\/a>, 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 38221 (9th Cir. Dec. 23, 2019).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a prior post, United States v. Wrensford, 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 138235 (D. V.I. Aug. 15, 2019), the court held that the government didn\u2019t get the benefit of inevitable discovery of defendant\u2019s DNA for lack of proof. The court &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=41484\">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":[57,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dna","category-qualified-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41484","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=41484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41516,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41484\/revisions\/41516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}