{"id":58612,"date":"2024-08-14T05:23:53","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T10:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=58612"},"modified":"2024-08-14T05:23:53","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T10:23:53","slug":"mt-community-caretaking-entries-cannot-be-based-on-alleged-crime-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=58612","title":{"rendered":"MT community caretaking entries cannot be based on alleged crime alone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The welfare check of defendant\u2019s house was reasonable. Yet, in this state, the community caretaker function cannot be based on an alleged crime alone. <a href=\"https:\/\/searchcourts.mt.gov\/PerceptiveJUDSupremeCourt\/APP\/connector\/3\/361\/url\/3991DBE8-5CAA-C1C4-A27D-9129A7100000.pdf\">State v. Case<\/a>, 2024 MT 165 (Aug. 6, 2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant\u2019s 2255 ineffective assistance claim is rejected. Here there was child porn involved, and defendant\u2019s conviction and sentence were not affected by any drug evidence. \u201cCounsel smartly noted this at the suppression hearing: \u2018It&#8217;s not important to [this] case so I don&#8217;t care about that. I mean, that&#8217;s a state case with a state possession.\u2019 [Tr. 5-6, 9]. This wasn&#8217;t deficient performance, but a sound tactical decision.\u201d Moreover, stretched to its extreme, the 2255 search argument loses on the merits or lack of standing. United States v. Wood, 2024 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 139183 (N.D. Ind. Aug. 6, 2024).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 911 report was somewhat ambiguous, but, on the officers\u2019 arrival at the scene, reasonable suspicion developed. United States v. Richard, 2024 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 139342 (W.D. Tenn. Aug. 6, 2024).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The welfare check of defendant\u2019s house was reasonable. Yet, in this state, the community caretaker function cannot be based on an alleged crime alone. State v. Case, 2024 MT 165 (Aug. 6, 2024). Defendant\u2019s 2255 ineffective assistance claim is rejected. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=58612\">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":[74,23,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-caretaking-function","category-ineffective-assistance","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58612","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=58612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58613,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58612\/revisions\/58613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}