{"id":61539,"date":"2025-07-24T08:54:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T13:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61539"},"modified":"2025-07-24T17:36:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T22:36:49","slug":"ca6-govt-waived-pc-argument-but-gfe-carries-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61539","title":{"rendered":"CA6: Govt. waived PC argument, but GFE carries the day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The government waived reliance on probable cause in the district court, but its good faith exception was presented and supports the search. United States v. Scales, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 18324 (6th Cir. July 21, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The magistrate\u2019s R&amp;R finding the stop lacked reasonable suspicion is sustained. The stop was for a hard-to-read temporary tag, but that\u2019s not unlawful. The inevitable discovery rule doesn\u2019t apply here because of the unreasonable stop. United States v. Thelen, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 139324 (N.D. Iowa July 22, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court granted a motion to suppress a search a year ago. As they press forward to trial, the court finds inevitable discovery makes much of the evidence otherwise admissible at trial. United States v. Fox, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 141094 (E.D.N.Y. July 23, 2025).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government waived reliance on probable cause in the district court, but its good faith exception was presented and supports the search. United States v. Scales, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 18324 (6th Cir. July 21, 2025).* The magistrate\u2019s R&amp;R finding &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61539\">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":[11,68,35,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-faith-exception","category-inevitable-discovery","category-reasonable-suspicion","category-waiver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61539","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=61539"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61545,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61539\/revisions\/61545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}