{"id":63949,"date":"2026-04-28T15:19:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63949"},"modified":"2026-04-28T15:19:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:19:16","slug":"d-d-c-pos-alleged-violation-of-probation-regulations-doesnt-warrant-suppression-if-a-reasonable-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63949","title":{"rendered":"D.D.C.: PO&#8217;s alleged violation of probation regulations doesn&#8217;t warrant suppression if a reasonable mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Even if GPS monitoring by a Community Supervision Officer under D.C. law violated regulations, a reasonable mistake of law (Heien) overcomes the violation, and it is not suppressed. <a href=\"https:\/\/ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov\/cgi-bin\/show_public_doc?2025cr0150-85\">United States v. White<\/a>, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 92214 (D.D.C. Apr. 27, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The use of flashlights in a dark room isn\u2019t a Fourth Amendment violation. United States v. McCary, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 92257 (E.D. Okla. Mar. 10, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>22 month old information in a child pornography was not stale. United States v. Hoffman, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 92276 (M.D. Pa. Apr. 27, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government didn\u2019t prove reasonable suspicion for defendant\u2019s traffic stop. \u201cAccordingly, even under the alternative assumption that the initial stop was valid, the Court holds that law enforcement violated the Fourth Amendment by converting the stop into a custodial arrest without probable cause, and that the fruits of that arrest must be suppressed.\u201d United States v. Rizo, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 92456 (S.D. Miss. Apr. 27, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if GPS monitoring by a Community Supervision Officer under D.C. law violated regulations, a reasonable mistake of law (Heien) overcomes the violation, and it is not suppressed. United States v. White, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 92214 (D.D.C. Apr. 27, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63949\">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":[17,51,58,35,63,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gps-tracking-data","category-plain-view","category-probationparole-search","category-reasonable-suspicion","category-reasonableness","category-staleness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63949","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=63949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63950,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63949\/revisions\/63950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}