{"id":62415,"date":"2025-12-04T10:24:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T15:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62415"},"modified":"2025-12-04T10:42:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T15:42:58","slug":"mt-losing-4a-on-post-conviction-is-collateral-estoppel-in-legal-malpractice-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62415","title":{"rendered":"MT: Losing 4A claim on post-conviction is collateral estoppel in legal malpractice action"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Losing a Fourth Amendment claim on post-conviction is collateral estoppel in a legal malpractice action. <a href=\"https:\/\/juddocumentservice.mt.gov\/getDocByCTrackId?DocId=547774\">Benton v. Babcock<\/a>, 2025 MT 277, 2025 Mont. LEXIS 1461 (Dec. 2, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe search warrant application contained sufficient information to support a reasonable belief that evidence of criminal conduct would be found in the defendant&#8217;s home \u2026. Moreover, contrary to the defendant&#8217;s contention, certain information contained in the search warrant application was not stale in light of all of the relevant circumstances, including the nature of the property to be seized, namely, firearms and assault weapons.\u201d People v. Brois, 2025 NY Slip Op 06720 (2d Dept. Dec. 3, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The objections to the R&amp;R are a rehash of the motion to suppress, and that\u2019s not enough. Then, he raised a particularity argument that wasn\u2019t in the original motion to suppress. Denied. United States v. Dauksys, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 231262 (E.D. Ky. Nov. 25, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Losing a Fourth Amendment claim on post-conviction is collateral estoppel in a legal malpractice action. Benton v. Babcock, 2025 MT 277, 2025 Mont. LEXIS 1461 (Dec. 2, 2025). \u201cThe search warrant application contained sufficient information to support a reasonable belief &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62415\">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":[104,126,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-burden-of-pleading","category-issue-preclusion","category-probable-cause"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62415","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=62415"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62419,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62415\/revisions\/62419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}