{"id":61600,"date":"2025-08-05T10:15:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61600"},"modified":"2025-08-05T10:15:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:15:50","slug":"tx6-def-abandoned-cell-phone-pc-for-sw-didnt-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61600","title":{"rendered":"TX6: Def abandoned cell phone; PC for SW didn&#8217;t matter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Defendant abandoned his cell phone, and then the police got a warrant for it. Still, it\u2019s abandonment. Williams v. State, 2025 Tex. App. LEXIS 5777 (Tex. App. \u2013 Texarkana Aug. 5, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The evidence supported the district court\u2019s conclusion there was a factual basis for defendant\u2019s stop for not signaling a turn soon enough. United States v. Cardinale, 24-2784 (8th Cir. Aug. 4, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A tracking warrant is for movement, not contents of a vehicle. \u201cBased on the totality of the circumstances, the Court concludes that the Tracking Affidavit set forth sufficient facts to lead a reasonably prudent person to believe there was a fair probability that tracking the Vehicle&#8217;s location may lead to evidence of criminal activity. Notman, 831 F.3d at 1088.\u201d United States v. Verser, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 149701 (D. Minn. June 16, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A film over the LPN making it harder to read justified this stop. United States v. Harris, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 149685 (E.D. Tex. July 3, 2025).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant abandoned his cell phone, and then the police got a warrant for it. Still, it\u2019s abandonment. Williams v. State, 2025 Tex. App. LEXIS 5777 (Tex. App. \u2013 Texarkana Aug. 5, 2025).* The evidence supported the district court\u2019s conclusion there &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61600\">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":[48,5,35,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-cell-phones","category-reasonable-suspicion","category-tracking-warrant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61600","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=61600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61601,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61600\/revisions\/61601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}