\u201cBalanced against this diminished expectation of privacy is the government’s heightened interest in evaluating and monitoring the conduct of persons on supervised release. Id. The United States Office of Probation and Pretrial Services has a legitimate, important interest in \u2018rehabilitation and protecting society from future criminal violations.\u2019 Knights, 534 U.S. at 119. And this interest comes with a sense of urgency. \u2018[Probationers] have even more of an incentive to conceal their criminal activities and quickly dispose of incriminating evidence.\u2019 Id. at 120. Here, at the time of the search, Officer Phillips had corroborated information that supported (minimally) a reasonable suspicion that Neves had a gun and access to contraband drugs and that his phone(s) would bear witness to the same. With this information, Probation had an interest to locate these items to sanction recidivism and protect the public.\u201d United States v. Neves, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 63785 (D. Me. Apr. 3, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The officers didn\u2019t have to actually see defendant doing things to have reasonable suspicion. United States v. Trent, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 64096 (E.D. Tenn. Apr. 3, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While the outline of a firearm in defendant\u2019s pocket wasn\u2019t visible on the bodycam video, the court credits that the officers could still see it. United States v. Lee, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 63788 (E.D. La. Apr. 3, 2025).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cBalanced against this diminished expectation of privacy is the government’s heightened interest in evaluating and monitoring the conduct of persons on supervised release. Id. The United States Office of Probation and Pretrial Services has a legitimate, important interest in \u2018rehabilitation … Continue reading