{"id":61611,"date":"2025-08-06T11:32:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T16:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61611"},"modified":"2025-08-06T11:32:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T16:32:03","slug":"ca4-dog-sniff-at-apt-door-here-violated-no-rep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61611","title":{"rendered":"CA4: Dog sniff at apt. door here violated no REP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A dog sniff at defendant\u2019s apartment door in a multi-unit complex didn\u2019t violate any reasonable expectation of privacy. (Two unpublished cases in this circuit said that; this one\u2019s published.) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ca4.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/234255.P.pdf\">United States v. Johnson<\/a>, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 19648 (4th Cir. Aug. 5, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was probable cause for plaintiff\u2019s arrest and then the search incident of his backpack. Talley v. Jackson State Univ., 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 19727 (5th Cir. Aug. 5, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhile Plaintiff argues that Sergeant Omey&#8217;s actions violated City law and policy, the \u2018reasonableness\u2019 standard for searches does not take account of local laws. See Virginia v. Moore, 553 U.S. 164, 178, 128 S. Ct. 1598, 170 L. Ed. 2d 559 (2008) (\u2018[I]t is not the province of the Fourth Amendment to enforce state law.\u2019) Accordingly, Plaintiff has not proffered enough facts to indicate beyond a speculative level that the seizure violated Plaintiff&#8217;s rights.\u201d Pifferini v. City of Eureka, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 149758 (N.D. Cal. Aug. 4, 2025).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dog sniff at defendant\u2019s apartment door in a multi-unit complex didn\u2019t violate any reasonable expectation of privacy. (Two unpublished cases in this circuit said that; this one\u2019s published.) United States v. Johnson, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 19648 (4th Cir. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61611\">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":[27,18,63,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dog-sniff","category-reasonable-expectation-of-privacy","category-reasonableness","category-search-incident"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61611","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=61611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61612,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61611\/revisions\/61612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}