{"id":61400,"date":"2025-07-02T15:30:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T20:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61400"},"modified":"2025-07-02T15:30:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T20:30:30","slug":"reason-do-arrest-warrants-have-a-diligence-requirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61400","title":{"rendered":"Reason: Do Arrest Warrants Have a Diligence Requirement?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Reason: <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/volokh\/2025\/07\/02\/do-arrest-warrants-have-a-diligence-requirement\/?comments=true\">Do Arrest Warrants Have a Diligence Requirement?<\/a> by Orin Kerr:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The Fourth Circuit recently handed down a ruling,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/pdf\/2025\/06\/17\/united_states_v._jose_hernandez-garcia.pdf\"><em>United States v. Ordonez-Zometa<\/em><\/a>, that raised a really interesting question: Does the Fourth Amendment require officers to exercise diligence in executing an arrest warrant?\u00a0 That is, if there&#8217;s an arrest warrant out for a person, are officers required to make the arrest when they can, or soon after that?\u00a0 And if they can delay making the arrest, how long a delay is allowed?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What makes this particularly interesting to me is that I went in thinking there was no such diligence requirement; the Fourth Circuit said there is such a requirement; but when I looked back into the history of the caselaw, I tended to think the Fourth Circuit&#8217;s diligence requirement may just be a vestige of long-overturned caselaw that no one realized is now obsolete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are the details, for the law nerds interested in the puzzle to be solved here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reason: Do Arrest Warrants Have a Diligence Requirement? by Orin Kerr:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrest-or-entry-on-arrest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61400","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=61400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61401,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61400\/revisions\/61401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}