{"id":59805,"date":"2025-01-10T14:02:25","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T19:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=59805"},"modified":"2025-01-10T15:56:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T20:56:34","slug":"ca4-ditching-backpack-when-hiding-from-police-was-abandonment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=59805","title":{"rendered":"CA4: Ditching backpack when hiding from police was abandonment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Defendant abandoned his backpack when he ditched it in a motel stairwell when he was fleeing the police. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ca4.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/234051.P.pdf\">United States v. Mayberry<\/a>, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 300 (4th Cir. Jan. 7, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leaving one\u2019s backpack and a trashbag in the bushes was abandonment. <a href=\"http:\/\/media.ca7.uscourts.gov\/cgi-bin\/OpinionsWeb\/processWebInputExternal.pl?Submit=Display&amp;Path=Y2025\/D01-07\/C:24-1443:J:PerCuriam:aut:T:npDp:N:3315426:S:0\">United States v. Burnett<\/a>, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 312 (7th Cir. Jan. 7, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Petitioner doesn\u2019t get to see the name of the CI in the issuance of the search warrant. Aguasanta v. City of N.Y., 2025 NY Slip Op 00035 (1st Dept. Jan. 7, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>COA from denial of 2254 denied on petitioner\u2019s Fourth Amendment ineffective assistance claim. He wouldn\u2019t win on the merits. Carson v. Lumpkin, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 223 (5th Cir. Jan. 6, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant\u2019s cell phone and its contents were still contraband and could not be returned, even if the phone was reset to its factory settings. United States v. Nestor, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 241 (3d Cir. Jan. 6, 2025).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant abandoned his backpack when he ditched it in a motel stairwell when he was fleeing the police. United States v. Mayberry, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 300 (4th Cir. Jan. 7, 2025). Leaving one\u2019s backpack and a trashbag in the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=59805\">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":[48,23,44,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-ineffective-assistance","category-informant-hearsay","category-rule-41g-return-of-property"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59805","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=59805"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59807,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59805\/revisions\/59807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}