{"id":61608,"date":"2025-08-06T09:05:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T14:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61608"},"modified":"2025-08-06T09:05:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T14:05:47","slug":"ca5-fill-in-the-blanks-arrest-affidavit-still-showed-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61608","title":{"rendered":"CA5: &#8220;Fill in the blanks&#8221; arrest affidavit still showed PC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The \u201cfill in the blanks\u201d arrest affidavit for the Waco Twin Peaks biker shootout wasn\u2019t fatally defective. What facts it had showed probable cause. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ca5.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/unpub\/24\/24-50751.0.pdf\">Barnhart v. Stroman<\/a>, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 19740 (5th Cir. Aug. 5, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on a CI\u2019s story, officers had reasonable suspicion to search defendant\u2019s apartment under his probation search condition. United States v. Garman, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 149185 (D.N.M. Aug. 4, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The officer\u2019s travel plans question didn\u2019t impermissibly extend the stop, and it led to other questions and reasonable suspicion. United States v. Love, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 147985 (S.D. Tex. July 31, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The search should not have been suppressed. The affidavit for warrant showed probable cause including the smell of marijuana, too many surveillance cameras, and 60 alleged firearms [what does that have to do with anything if he\u2019s not a felon?] State v. Lingo, 2025 La. App. LEXIS 1445 (La. App. 1 Cir July 31, 2025).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cfill in the blanks\u201d arrest affidavit for the Waco Twin Peaks biker shootout wasn\u2019t fatally defective. What facts it had showed probable cause. Barnhart v. Stroman, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 19740 (5th Cir. Aug. 5, 2025). Based on a &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61608\">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":[50,44,20,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrest-or-entry-on-arrest","category-informant-hearsay","category-probable-cause","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61608","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=61608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61609,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61608\/revisions\/61609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}