{"id":42006,"date":"2020-01-26T00:00:09","date_gmt":"2020-01-26T05:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=42006"},"modified":"2020-01-25T16:46:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T21:46:39","slug":"m-d-la-merely-being-a-ci-doesnt-make-the-ci-a-participant-in-the-crime-for-disclosure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=42006","title":{"rendered":"M.D.La.: Merely being a CI doesn&#8217;t make the CI a &#8220;participant&#8221; in the crime for disclosure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Merely being a CI for the police doesn\u2019t make the CI a participant in the crime to make his or her identity subject to disclosure. United States v. Westbrook, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 10563 (M.D. La. Jan. 22, 2020).\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The record supports the redactions from the affidavit for search warrant to protect the identity of the CI. Probable cause was also shown. <a href=\"http:\/\/nycourts.gov\/reporter\/3dseries\/2020\/2020_00485.htm\">People v. Evans<\/a>, 2020 NY Slip Op 00485, 2020 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 497 (1st Dept. Jan. 23, 2020).*<\/p>\n<p>The exclusionary rule doesn\u2019t apply to supervised release proceedings absent police harassment, which defendant does not allege.  Defense counsel was thus not ineffective for not moving to suppress. United States v. Sanford, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 10440 (S.D. Miss. Jan. 22, 2020).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merely being a CI for the police doesn\u2019t make the CI a participant in the crime to make his or her identity subject to disclosure. United States v. Westbrook, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 10563 (M.D. La. Jan. 22, 2020). The &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=42006\">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":[44,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-informant-hearsay","category-probationparole-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42006","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=42006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42007,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42006\/revisions\/42007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}