{"id":60919,"date":"2025-04-27T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60919"},"modified":"2025-04-27T11:04:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T16:04:52","slug":"ar-use-of-a-ci-for-a-sw-creates-no-confrontation-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60919","title":{"rendered":"AR: Use of a CI for a SW creates no confrontation issue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The use of a CI for a search warrant creates no confrontation issue. <a href=\"https:\/\/opinions.arcourts.gov\/ark\/courtofappeals\/en\/523526\/1\/document.do\">Williams v. State<\/a>, 2025 Ark. App. 252, 2025 Ark. App. LEXIS 254 (Apr. 23, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was appellate counsel\u2019s choice to not pursue defendant\u2019s search claim on appeal because it was futile, therefore no ineffective assistance. United States v. Martin, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 77946 (N.D. Ohio Apr. 23, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On plain error review: \u201cIn this case, three investigatory steps preceded the search of Bey&#8217;s residence. First, Inspector Sherman had reasonable suspicion to pull the package from the mail stream for further investigation. Second, Maty&#8217;s alert during the blind lineup established probable cause to obtain a search warrant for the package. Third, the discovery of fentanyl in the package provided probable cause to obtain an anticipatory search warrant for Bey&#8217;s residence. Because all three steps complied with the Fourth Amendment, Bey&#8217;s argument fails.\u201d United States v. Bey, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 10024, at 3-4 (6th Cir. Apr. 25, 2025).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The use of a CI for a search warrant creates no confrontation issue. Williams v. State, 2025 Ark. App. 252, 2025 Ark. App. LEXIS 254 (Apr. 23, 2025). It was appellate counsel\u2019s choice to not pursue defendant\u2019s search claim on &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60919\">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":[124,90,23,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admissibility-of-evidence","category-anticipatory-warrant","category-ineffective-assistance","category-privileges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60919","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=60919"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60926,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60919\/revisions\/60926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}