{"id":48016,"date":"2021-04-07T08:45:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T13:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=48016"},"modified":"2021-04-07T08:45:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T13:45:30","slug":"ca8-warrantless-seizure-of-computer-in-fraud-case-was-reasonable-because-of-exigency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=48016","title":{"rendered":"CA8: Warrantless seizure of computer in fraud case was reasonable because of exigency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The warrantless seizure of defendant\u2019s computer was justified by exigent circumstances that it contained evidence of fraud. <a href=\"http:\/\/media.ca8.uscourts.gov\/opndir\/21\/04\/201333P.pdf\">United States v. Mays<\/a>, 2021 U.S. App. LEXIS 9861 (8th Cir. Apr. 6, 2021).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBecause we conclude that the officer&#8217;s initial question about the defendant&#8217;s itinerary did not alter the fundamental nature of the stop, and that the defendant&#8217;s dishonest response, combined with other information known to the officer, created reasonable suspicion that she was involved in illegal activity before he expanded the scope of the stop, we find no violation of the State Constitution.\u201d Nor did it violate the Fourth Amendment. State v. Janvrin, 2021 N.H. LEXIS 56 (Mar. 18, 2021).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deposition testimony of the officer here leaves a jury question on probable cause for plaintiff\u2019s arrest. The officer doesn\u2019t get qualified immunity here, either. <a href=\"http:\/\/httphalitew.ca2.uscourts.gov\/decisions\/isysquery\/3c60830f-0220-40e8-883d-0edc23cd2c74\/2\/doc\/20-827_so.pdf#xml=https:\/\/www.ca2.uscourts.gov\/decisions\/isysquery\/3c60830f-0220-40e8-883d-0edc23cd2c74\/2\/hilite\/\">Gatling v. West<\/a>, 2021 U.S. App. LEXIS 9837 (2d Cir. Apr. 6, 2021).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The warrantless seizure of defendant\u2019s computer was justified by exigent circumstances that it contained evidence of fraud. United States v. Mays, 2021 U.S. App. LEXIS 9861 (8th Cir. Apr. 6, 2021). \u201cBecause we conclude that the officer&#8217;s initial question about &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=48016\">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":[12,3,35,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-searches","category-emergency-exigency","category-reasonable-suspicion","category-standards-of-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48016","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=48016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48017,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48016\/revisions\/48017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}