{"id":61546,"date":"2025-07-25T14:38:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T19:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61546"},"modified":"2025-07-26T08:38:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T13:38:05","slug":"e-d-tex-return-of-property-under-rule-41g-requires-more-than-seizure-might-be-unreasonable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61546","title":{"rendered":"E.D.Tex.: Return of property under Rule 41(g) requires more than a seizure that &#8220;might be&#8221; unreasonable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The fact property was held after seizure under a search warrant that might be invalid isn\u2019t enough to order equitable return of property under Rule 41(g). Bingli Lin v. United States, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 142181 (E.D. Tex. June 30, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was probable cause for the warrants here, and they will not be suppressed. Suppression isn\u2019t a remedy for an alleged violation of the pen register statute. United States v. Brown, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 141787 (S.D. Ohio July 24, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The officer here was on a Bronx rooftop with binoculars and saw a hand-to-hand drug transaction, and defendant got into a car. There was probable cause to search the car under the automobile exception. United States v. Rivera, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 139910 (S.D.N.Y. July 22, 2025).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fact property was held after seizure under a search warrant that might be invalid isn\u2019t enough to order equitable return of property under Rule 41(g). Bingli Lin v. United States, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 142181 (E.D. Tex. June 30, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61546\">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":[20,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-probable-cause","category-rule-41g-return-of-property"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61546","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=61546"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61549,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61546\/revisions\/61549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}