{"id":61781,"date":"2025-08-27T08:57:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T13:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61781"},"modified":"2025-08-27T08:57:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T13:57:04","slug":"d-mass-foreign-law-enforcement-agency-could-be-credited-as-informant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61781","title":{"rendered":"D.Mass.: Foreign law enforcement agency could be credited as informant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A tip from a foreign law enforcement agency about a Massachusetts IP address trading in CSAM could be credited for probable cause. United States v. Shacar, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 165584 (D. Mass. Aug. 26, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because the CI\u2019s role was so limited in the drug buy that led to the warrant, the defense doesn\u2019t get discovery of the CI. Defendant\u2019s not charged with the drug deal. State v. Manzella, 2025 Tex. App. LEXIS 6583 (Tex. App. \u2013 Houston (14th Dist.) Aug. 26, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under this warrant, once things (like safes) were seized from the house, the officers could search without another warrant. United States v. Kipling, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 165267 (E.D. Ky. Aug. 26, 2025).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tip from a foreign law enforcement agency about a Massachusetts IP address trading in CSAM could be credited for probable cause. United States v. Shacar, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 165584 (D. Mass. Aug. 26, 2025). Because the CI\u2019s role &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61781\">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":[44,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-informant-hearsay","category-scope-of-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61781","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=61781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61782,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61781\/revisions\/61782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}