{"id":60854,"date":"2025-04-19T09:35:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T14:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60854"},"modified":"2025-04-19T09:35:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T14:35:24","slug":"e-d-pa-a-prison-inmate-has-no-standing-in-his-cell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60854","title":{"rendered":"E.D.Pa.: A prison inmate has no standing in his cell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Correctional officers found 20 cell phones in defendant\u2019s cell. He has no standing in his cell. As to the cell phone searches, even if he had standing, the warrants were not overbroad. United States v. Nasir, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 72018 (E.D. Pa. Apr. 15, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a traffic stop on a quiet street albeit in a high crime area, defendant and his passenger getting out of their truck before the police car lights were even on was concerning enough to the officer to ask about weapons. A protective weapons search was justified. United States v. Antley, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 72249 (D.R.I. Apr. 16, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cProbable cause only requires a \u2018fair probability\u2019 that police would find evidence of criminal conduct in executing the warrant; it does not require conclusive evidence that Ms. Freeman was engaged in criminal conduct. \u2026 A commonsense analysis of the Affidavit supports the conclusion that there was at least a fair probability Ms. Freeman was transporting contraband.\u201d In addition, the good faith exception applies. United States v. Freeman, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 72350 (D. Minn. Mar. 19, 2025).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Correctional officers found 20 cell phones in defendant\u2019s cell. He has no standing in his cell. As to the cell phone searches, even if he had standing, the warrants were not overbroad. United States v. Nasir, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60854\">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":[113,20,22,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prison-and-jail-searches","category-probable-cause","category-protective-sweep","category-standing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60854","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=60854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60855,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60854\/revisions\/60855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}