{"id":63751,"date":"2026-04-03T06:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T11:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63751"},"modified":"2026-04-03T07:39:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:39:33","slug":"w-d-wis-failure-to-cross-a-trial-witness-about-a-search-claim-isnt-iac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63751","title":{"rendered":"W.D.Wis.: Failure to cross a trial witness about a search claim isn&#8217;t IAC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Failure to cross-examine a trial witness about a potential Fourth Amendment violation is not ineffective assistance of counsel because a jury trial is not the place to resolve a search claim. Kawleski v. United States, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 70540 (W.D. Wis. Mar. 30, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defense counsel wasn\u2019t ineffective for not better challenging the searches of his car. Counsel raised all the issues that were apparent. Sharp v. United States, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 68788 (N.D. Ohio Mar. 31, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trial court erred in finding the officer\u2019s unrefuted testimony defendant crossed the centerline justifying the stop. It was raining and night and the video wasn\u2019t clear on anything, thus inclusive. State v. Caughenbaugh, 2026-Ohio-1153 (5th Dist. Mar. 30, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLocked containers\u201d on the premises includes a safe. United States v. Isa, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 70216 (E.D.N.Y. Mar. 31, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Failure to cross-examine a trial witness about a potential Fourth Amendment violation is not ineffective assistance of counsel because a jury trial is not the place to resolve a search claim. Kawleski v. United States, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 70540 &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63751\">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":[23,35,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ineffective-assistance","category-reasonable-suspicion","category-scope-of-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63751","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=63751"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63756,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63751\/revisions\/63756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}