{"id":63513,"date":"2026-03-10T09:20:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T14:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63513"},"modified":"2026-03-10T09:20:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T14:20:18","slug":"tx6-seizing-thermometers-protective-sleeve-from-hospital-waste-for-dna-was-reasonable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63513","title":{"rendered":"TX6: Seizing thermometer&#8217;s protective sleeve from hospital waste for DNA was reasonable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The officer getting the protective sleeve from a hospital thermometer to test for defendant\u2019s DNA wasn\u2019t unreasonable. Mundt v. State, 2026 Tex. App. LEXIS 2126 (Tex. App. \u2013 Texarkana Mar. 6, 2026) (unpublished).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After an initial inspection of this vessel, the Coast Guard saw a passenger throwing packages overboard, and that was justification for a second stop and attempting forfeiture. United States v. One (1) 27&#8242; Ctr. Console Vessel (PR-2881BB\/ El Cadillac), 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 46990 (D.P.R. Mar. 5, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was reasonable suspicion for defendant\u2019s stop for one traffic offense, so the other one he contests doesn\u2019t have to be addressed. State v. Weber, 320 Neb. 934 (Mar. 5, 2026).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The officer getting the protective sleeve from a hospital thermometer to test for defendant\u2019s DNA wasn\u2019t unreasonable. Mundt v. State, 2026 Tex. App. LEXIS 2126 (Tex. App. \u2013 Texarkana Mar. 6, 2026) (unpublished). After an initial inspection of this vessel, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63513\">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":[48,57,72,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-dna","category-forfeiture","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63513","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=63513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63514,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63513\/revisions\/63514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}