{"id":57978,"date":"2024-05-26T11:34:45","date_gmt":"2024-05-26T16:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=57978"},"modified":"2024-05-26T11:34:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-26T16:34:45","slug":"ga-merely-having-a-traffic-accident-doesnt-justify-sw-for-car-for-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=57978","title":{"rendered":"GA: Merely having a traffic accident doesn&#8217;t justify SW for car for cause"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Probable cause didn\u2019t exist for a warrant to search defendant\u2019s car after a traffic accident for the cause of the accident. \u201cHere, given the circumstances as they existed when the search warrant was issued, we find that the magistrate did not have a substantial basis for concluding that probable cause existed to issue the search warrant for Harris&#8217;s car. The trooper&#8217;s affidavit set forth no facts indicating that Harris had committed a crime or traffic offense.\u201d  <a href=\"https:\/\/efast.gaappeals.us\/download?filingId=0d1c4ccb-eb01-4fdf-801f-a33456d61ed3\">Harris v. State<\/a>, 2024 Ga. App. LEXIS 200 (May 24, 2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defense counsel wasn\u2019t ineffective for not moving to suppress a search that would be legal anyway because of inevitable discovery. United States v. Chaney, 2024 U.S. App. LEXIS 12537 (10th Cir. May 24, 2024).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Materiality of omitted information isn\u2019t shown.  United States v. Bradley, 2024 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 92919 (N.D. Ohio May 23, 2024).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Probable cause didn\u2019t exist for a warrant to search defendant\u2019s car after a traffic accident for the cause of the accident. \u201cHere, given the circumstances as they existed when the search warrant was issued, we find that the magistrate did &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=57978\">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":[21,23,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-franks-doctrine","category-ineffective-assistance","category-probable-cause"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57978","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=57978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57979,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57978\/revisions\/57979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}