{"id":47828,"date":"2021-03-24T03:47:11","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T08:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=47828"},"modified":"2021-03-24T03:47:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T08:47:11","slug":"tx1-police-coming-to-door-for-knock-and-talk-wasnt-a-trespass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=47828","title":{"rendered":"TX1: Police coming to door for knock-and-talk wasn&#8217;t a trespass"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Police came to defendant\u2019s door for a knock-and-talk, and, when he opened it, the officers smelled marijuana. They went off for a search warrant. Approaching the door for a knock-and-talk was not a trespass. <a href=\"https:\/\/search.txcourts.gov\/SearchMedia.aspx?MediaVersionID=0130f3f6-f6f3-4a7c-8fab-d15bdb6b1965&amp;MediaID=dad4e2ad-6f66-4966-b58a-049ef6c1a049&amp;coa=%22%20+%20this.CurrentWebState.CurrentCourt%20+%20@%22&amp;DT=Opinion\">Howard v. State<\/a>, 2021 Tex. App. LEXIS 2185 (Tex. App. \u2013 Houston (1st Dist.) Mar. 23, 2021).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant\u2019s Fourth Amendment argument that a second DNA swab was needed isn\u2019t a \u201cgenuine need\u201d for the sample is presented as an ineffective assistance claim, and it is rejected. United States v. Lee, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 53506 (W.D. N.Y. Mar. 22, 2021).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plaintiff prison inmate\u2019s claim of a retaliatory cell search doesn\u2019t state a claim. Herrera v. Ortega, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 53645 (N.D. Cal. Mar. 19, 2021).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police came to defendant\u2019s door for a knock-and-talk, and, when he opened it, the officers smelled marijuana. They went off for a search warrant. Approaching the door for a knock-and-talk was not a trespass. Howard v. State, 2021 Tex. App. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=47828\">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":[57,54,113,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dna","category-knock-and-talk","category-prison-and-jail-searches","category-trespass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47828","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=47828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47829,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47828\/revisions\/47829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}