{"id":60843,"date":"2025-04-19T07:33:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T12:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60843"},"modified":"2025-04-19T07:33:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T12:33:12","slug":"ca11-when-there-are-multiple-grounds-supporting-a-search-appellant-has-to-respond-to-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60843","title":{"rendered":"CA11: When there are multiple grounds supporting a search, appellant has to respond to all"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An appellate court can affirm denial of suppression on any ground supported by the record. And, when the district court finds multiple independent grounds to deny suppression, the appellant has to rebut all of them. Here, the district court found (1) a lack of standing, (2) the automobile exception justified the search, (3) then an inventory would have occurred, and (4) inevitable discovery applied. All of them are supported by the record. <a href=\"https:\/\/media.ca11.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/unpub\/files\/202410904.pdf\">United States v. Eagan<\/a>, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 8966 (11th Cir. Apr. 16, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plaintiffs were arrested for sexual assault. One had his case dismissed before trial, and the other was acquitted. There was probable cause to proceed against them. \u201cTo be sure, the TCSO defendants&#8217; failure to investigate may not have been \u2018topnotch policing.\u2019 Harte v. Bd. of Comm&#8217;rs of Cnty. of Johnson, 864 F.3d 1154, 1178 (10th Cir. 2017) (Phillips, J., writing separately). But that does not mean it violated the Fourth Amendment. Once the TCSO defendants had sufficient probable cause, they had no obligation to \u2018exhaust every possible lead, interview all potential witnesses, [or] accumulate overwhelming corroborative evidence.\u2019 Stonecipher, 759 F.3d at 1142 (quoting Beard, 24 F.3d at 116). [\u00b6] Because Rosen has failed to identify any evidence indicating that the TCSO defendants lacked probable cause or acted recklessly when investigating and arresting him, we affirm the district court&#8217;s grant of summary judgment on both of his Fourth Amendment claims.\u201d Crothers v. Carr, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 8978 (10th Cir. Apr. 16, 2025).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An appellate court can affirm denial of suppression on any ground supported by the record. And, when the district court finds multiple independent grounds to deny suppression, the appellant has to rebut all of them. Here, the district court found &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60843\">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":[50,20,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrest-or-entry-on-arrest","category-probable-cause","category-standards-of-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60843","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=60843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60844,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60843\/revisions\/60844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}