{"id":53701,"date":"2022-12-03T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T15:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=53701"},"modified":"2022-12-04T22:27:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T03:27:36","slug":"ca3-delaware-hit-and-hold-practice-for-entries-not-decided-because-of-consent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=53701","title":{"rendered":"CA3: Delaware &#8220;hit and hold&#8221; practice for entries not decided because of consent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The court declines to decide the officers\u2019 \u201chit and hold\u201d entries where they entered without a warrant but under alleged exigency, secured the premises, and then sought a search warrant. Because there was independent justification for the warrantless search after the fact by consent before a warrant issued, there\u2019s no need to decide whether the practice is legal. <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.ca3.uscourts.gov\/opinarch\/212346p.pdf\">United States v. Alexander<\/a>, 2022 U.S. App. LEXIS 33020 (3d Cir. Nov. 30, 2022).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant\u2019s bad driving suggested DUI and that\u2019s exigency. State v. Weemhoff, 2022-Ohio-4263, 2022 Ohio App. LEXIS 4010 (5th Dist. Nov. 29, 2022).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After defendant\u2019s conviction, his firearms were no longer needed as evidence, and they can be returned to an intermediary, just not him. United States v. Vermilyea, 2022 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 214770 (D. Ariz. Nov. 29, 2022).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant\u2019s flight from the stop and dropping his cell phone was an abandonment. State v. Mills, 2022 Del. Super. LEXIS 1408 (Nov. 28, 2022).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The court declines to decide the officers\u2019 \u201chit and hold\u201d entries where they entered without a warrant but under alleged exigency, secured the premises, and then sought a search warrant. Because there was independent justification for the warrantless search after &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=53701\">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":[48,50,3,60,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-arrest-or-entry-on-arrest","category-emergency-exigency","category-independent-source","category-rule-41g-return-of-property"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53701","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=53701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53702,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53701\/revisions\/53702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}