{"id":54826,"date":"2023-05-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=54826"},"modified":"2023-05-04T14:52:23","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T19:52:23","slug":"ca10-defs-response-i-dont-have-a-backpack-was-abandonment-of-the-backpack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=54826","title":{"rendered":"CA10: Def&#8217;s response \u2018I don&#8217;t have a backpack\u2019 was abandonment of the backpack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cMr. Porter nonetheless attempts to distinguish this case from our other abandonment cases, claiming that in those cases, the defendant&#8217;s denial of ownership was clear and unequivocal. But it is hard to imagine a statement plainer than \u2018I don&#8217;t have a backpack.\u2019 The statement is clearer still when viewed in conjunction with the fact that Detective Lopez saw Mr. Porter walk into the job site with a backpack. That ambiguity might be read into a statement does not mean it should. And certainly, plausible ambiguity does not yield clear error.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ca10.uscourts.gov\/sites\/ca10\/files\/opinions\/010110853130.pdf\">United States v. Porter<\/a>, 2023 U.S. App. LEXIS 10634 (10th Cir. May 2, 2023).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regions Bank responding to an order of seizure of an account, wasn\u2019t state action for suing it under the Fourth Amendment and \u00a7 1983. Ellis-Erkkila v. Citibank, 2023 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 75017 (W.D. Tex. May 1, 2023).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This started off with a legitimate private search, and neither Franks requirement is met to get a hearing. United States v. Tatum, 2023 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 75482 (W.D.N.C. May 1, 2023).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMr. Porter nonetheless attempts to distinguish this case from our other abandonment cases, claiming that in those cases, the defendant&#8217;s denial of ownership was clear and unequivocal. But it is hard to imagine a statement plainer than \u2018I don&#8217;t have &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=54826\">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":[48,21,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-franks-doctrine","category-private-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54826","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=54826"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54829,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54826\/revisions\/54829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}