{"id":57675,"date":"2024-04-20T10:33:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T15:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=57675"},"modified":"2024-04-20T10:33:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T15:33:06","slug":"ca10-concealing-ones-identity-to-the-police-without-there-being-an-underlying-offense-doesnt-create-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=57675","title":{"rendered":"CA10: Concealing one\u2019s identity to the police without there being an underlying offense doesn\u2019t create PC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Concealing one\u2019s identity to the police without there being an underlying offense doesn\u2019t create probable cause. No qualified immunity: \u201cOur cases are clear: law enforcement needs reasonable suspicion of a \u2018predicate, underlying crime,\u2019 not a generalized suspicion a person is simply up to no good, to support an arrest for concealing identity. Keylon, 535 F.3d at 1216 (warrantless arrest for the offense of concealing identity will not satisfy the Fourth Amendment unless supported by reasonable suspicion suspect committed a predicate offense); see also Mocek, 813 F.3d at 922-23 (same); Corona, 959 F.3d at 1283-85 (same).\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ca10.uscourts.gov\/sites\/ca10\/files\/opinions\/010111033725.pdf\">Bustillos v. City of Artesia<\/a>, 2024 U.S. App. LEXIS 9354 (10th Cir. Apr. 17, 2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant was connected by the CSLI for his cell phone to 25 attacks. \u201cHere, it is uncontested that the two search warrant affidavits established probable cause to believe that the defendant committed the string of attacks. The only issue in this appeal is whether the affidavits demonstrated probable cause to believe that location data associated with the 781 number, the 857 number, and the defendant&#8217;s cell phone would produce evidence that the defendant committed the crimes.\u201d And they did. Commonwealth v. Janvier, 2024 Mass. App. LEXIS 57 (Apr. 18, 2024).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concealing one\u2019s identity to the police without there being an underlying offense doesn\u2019t create probable cause. No qualified immunity: \u201cOur cases are clear: law enforcement needs reasonable suspicion of a \u2018predicate, underlying crime,\u2019 not a generalized suspicion a person is &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=57675\">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":[84,20,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cell-site-location-information","category-probable-cause","category-qualified-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57675","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=57675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57676,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57675\/revisions\/57676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}