{"id":62499,"date":"2025-12-15T14:13:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T19:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62499"},"modified":"2025-12-16T07:17:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:17:23","slug":"ca8-merely-handling-bag-on-a-bus-at-a-stop-wasnt-a-search-or-seizure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62499","title":{"rendered":"CA8: Merely handling bag on a Greyhound Bus at a stop wasn&#8217;t a search or seizure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The officer\u2019s handling defendant\u2019s suitcase on a Greyhound Bus for five seconds to remove it from the bus, just as the driver or baggage handlers would, before asking him for consent was not unreasonable. Defendant validly consented to its search. [Not cited is Bond, so the bag wasn\u2019t felt for its contents.] <a href=\"https:\/\/ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov\/opndir\/25\/12\/242158P.pdf\">United States v. Clay<\/a>, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 32667 (8th Cir. Dec. 15, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was probable cause for the warrant so the good faith exception doesn\u2019t need to be decided. United States v. Wentz, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 32403 (9th Cir. Dec. 11, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The First District Court of Appeals lost jurisdiction to remand to the trial court to consider late disclosed impeachment evidence that could have aided defendant\u2019s suppression hearing. Thomson v. State, 2025 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 903 (Dec. 10, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant\u2019s disagreements with the affidavit for warrant don\u2019t show materiality for a Franks challenge. United States v. Francis, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 255532 (S.D.N.Y. Dec. 9, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The officer\u2019s handling defendant\u2019s suitcase on a Greyhound Bus for five seconds to remove it from the bus, just as the driver or baggage handlers would, before asking him for consent was not unreasonable. Defendant validly consented to its search. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62499\">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":[24,21,20,73,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consent","category-franks-doctrine","category-probable-cause","category-search","category-suppression-hearings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62499","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=62499"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62504,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62499\/revisions\/62504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}