{"id":61748,"date":"2025-08-21T08:36:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T13:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61748"},"modified":"2025-08-25T05:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T10:16:09","slug":"ca8-a-summons-to-come-to-court-is-not-a-4a-seizure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61748","title":{"rendered":"CA8: A summons to come to court is not a 4A seizure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A summons to come to court is not a Fourth Amendment seizure. <a href=\"https:\/\/ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov\/opndir\/25\/08\/233073P.pdf\">Brown v. City of Dermott, Arkansas<\/a>, 23-3073 (8th Cir. Aug. 19, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The search of defendant\u2019s vehicle was valid both under the automobile exception and inventory. United States v. Ware, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 161649 (E.D. Mo. Aug. 19, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFinally, the Court also agrees with [USM] Judge Dueker&#8217;s finding that Defendant abandoned the firearm and controlled substances he threw out of the vehicle while fleeing from the police, thus forfeiting any reasonable expectation of privacy in those items.\u201d United States v. Carter, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 161652 (E.D. Mo. Aug. 20, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officers do not get qualified immunity for entering his garage to talk to him about a knock-and-talk. Case law says the front door, but it doesn\u2019t say not the garage where he was standing. Theis v. Van der Stad, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 161334 (D. Minn. Aug. 20, 2025).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A summons to come to court is not a Fourth Amendment seizure. Brown v. City of Dermott, Arkansas, 23-3073 (8th Cir. Aug. 19, 2025). The search of defendant\u2019s vehicle was valid both under the automobile exception and inventory. United States &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61748\">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":[48,54,40,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-knock-and-talk","category-qualified-immunity","category-seizure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61748","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=61748"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61755,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61748\/revisions\/61755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}