{"id":62711,"date":"2026-01-07T18:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T23:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62711"},"modified":"2026-01-07T18:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T23:03:09","slug":"ca10-a-search-incident-to-arrest-isnt-valid-when-theres-no-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62711","title":{"rendered":"CA10: A search incident to arrest isn\u2019t valid when there\u2019s no arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A search incident to arrest isn\u2019t valid when there\u2019s no arrest. The law is clearly established, so no qualified immunity. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ca10.uscourts.gov\/sites\/ca10\/files\/opinions\/010111362931.pdf\">Montgomery v. Cruz<\/a>, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 161 (10th Cir. Jan. 6, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The defense succeeded in a Franks challenge in the trial court, and the state appealed. Reversed. At worst, the officer was merely negligent in looking up defendant\u2019s prior convictions in a law enforcement database where defendant\u2019s prior expunged conviction was shown. \u201cI agree with the State that Spencer failed to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that Deputy Ruvalcaba recklessly disregarded the truth when he identified the 2008 Missouri felony conviction and sought confirmation of the same with the county attorney without conducting any further investigation.\u201d The officer also contacted the county attorney, but not Missouri. State v. Spencer, 2026 Neb. App. LEXIS 4 (Jan. 6, 2026) (unpublished).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A false statement that diverted the FBI from getting a warrant in NJ for a cell phone was sufficient for venue in NYC. United States v. Whitehead, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 167 (2d Cir. Jan. 6, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A search incident to arrest isn\u2019t valid when there\u2019s no arrest. The law is clearly established, so no qualified immunity. Montgomery v. Cruz, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 161 (10th Cir. Jan. 6, 2026). The defense succeeded in a Franks challenge &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62711\">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":[21,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-franks-doctrine","category-search-incident"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62711","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=62711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62712,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62711\/revisions\/62712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}