{"id":57698,"date":"2024-04-22T11:30:58","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T16:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=57698"},"modified":"2024-04-22T11:30:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T16:30:58","slug":"ca11-qi-for-fbi-swat-raiding-wrong-house-at-330-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=57698","title":{"rendered":"CA11: QI for FBI SWAT raiding wrong house at 3:30 am"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cIn Hartsfield, we explained that an officer who makes \u2018reasonable effort[s] to ascertain and identify the\u2019 target address of a valid search warrant complies with the Fourth Amendment even if error is ultimately not averted. 50 F.3d at 954-55 (quoting Garrison, 480 U.S. at 88-89). Appellants contend that Guerra failed to make reasonable efforts to identify 3741 Landau Lane before mistakenly executing the warrant at their house. Specifically, Appellants argue that Guerra did not conduct a site survey or drive-by of 3741 Landau Lane prior to the warrant execution. Assuming Guerra failed to conduct a survey or pre-raid drive-by, the other actions he took to identify 3741 Landau Lane were \u2018consistent with a reasonable e\ufb00ort to ascertain and identify the place intended to be searched.\u2019 See Hartsfield, 50 F.3d at 955 (quoting Garrison, 480 U.S. at 88-89). He reviewed the operation order and SWAT addendum; he attended an operational briefing that consisted of several presentations displaying photographs of Riley and 3741 Landau Lane; and he selected a staging area and made tactical notes that considered the location and features of the target address. [\u00b6] Additionally, the fact that the target address and Appellants&#8217; house share several conspicuous features demonstrates that Guerra&#8217;s execution of the warrant at the wrong house constituted an inadvertent mistake.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/media.ca11.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/unpub\/files\/202310062.pdf\">Martin v. United States<\/a>, 2024 U.S. App. LEXIS 9619 (11th Cir. Apr. 22, 2024).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn Hartsfield, we explained that an officer who makes \u2018reasonable effort[s] to ascertain and identify the\u2019 target address of a valid search warrant complies with the Fourth Amendment even if error is ultimately not averted. 50 F.3d at 954-55 (quoting &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=57698\">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":[80,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nighttime-search","category-warrant-execution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57698","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=57698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57699,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57698\/revisions\/57699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}