{"id":60606,"date":"2025-03-28T09:58:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T14:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60606"},"modified":"2025-03-28T09:58:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T14:58:27","slug":"w-d-va-no-rep-in-non-legal-jail-mail-from-being-scanned-for-tablet-viewing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60606","title":{"rendered":"W.D.Va.: No REP in non-legal jail mail from being scanned for tablet viewing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There is no reasonable expectation of privacy in non-legal mail in jail. Here, mail was scanned and made into a pdf for viewing on a tablet. Cecil v. Keller, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 56313 (W.D. Va. Mar. 25, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A FedEx employee delivered a package to defendant\u2019s house that a drug dog had already alerted on, but it hadn\u2019t been opened. He said that the house had an overpowering smell of marijuana coming from it from 50&#8242; away. Then police got a warrant for the package and the house. It was with probable cause. United States v. Randle, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 7028 (7th Cir. Mar. 26, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant\u2019s Franks challenge is over whether a toilet seat cover was up or down enabling a plain view. This isn\u2019t the type of challenge permitted by Franks because it only shows a desire to cross-examine. United States v. Reyes, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 56163 (W.D. Ky. Mar. 25, 2025).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no reasonable expectation of privacy in non-legal mail in jail. Here, mail was scanned and made into a pdf for viewing on a tablet. Cecil v. Keller, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 56313 (W.D. Va. Mar. 25, 2025).* A &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60606\">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":[21,99,113,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-franks-doctrine","category-mail-and-packages","category-prison-and-jail-searches","category-probable-cause"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60606","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=60606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60607,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60606\/revisions\/60607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}