{"id":64552,"date":"2026-07-28T10:47:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T15:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64552"},"modified":"2026-07-28T10:47:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T15:47:30","slug":"cal-4-no-error-not-unsealing-cis-identity-in-sw-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64552","title":{"rendered":"Cal.4: No error not unsealing CI&#8217;s identity in SW application"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The trial court didn\u2019t err in refusing to unseal part of the search warrant affidavit that disclosed the identity of the CI because the state informer privilege applied. The sealing issue still gets reviewed on appeal where the court of appeals makes its own determination. <a href=\"https:\/\/www4.courts.ca.gov\/opinions\/documents\/E085193.PDF\">People v. Vasquez<\/a>, 2026 Cal. App. LEXIS 451 (4th Dist. July 27, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The officer\u2019s reasonable mistake about the basis for his stop did not warrant suppression under Heien. State v. Dunch, 2026-Ohio-2868 (11th Dist. July 27, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant\u2019s arrest for robbery was with probable cause, and his backpack was lawfully searched incident to the arrest. State v. Strattman, 2026-Ohio-2863 (12th Dist. July 27, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The officer here was conversing with the passenger in defendant\u2019s car, but that was not a seizure of the driver until they were ordered out of the car at gunpoint. United States v. Murphy, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 165128 (E.D. Va. July 24, 2026).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trial court didn\u2019t err in refusing to unseal part of the search warrant affidavit that disclosed the identity of the CI because the state informer privilege applied. The sealing issue still gets reviewed on appeal where the court of &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64552\">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":[44,63,26,69,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-informant-hearsay","category-reasonableness","category-search-incident","category-seizure","category-warrant-papers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64552","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=64552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64553,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64552\/revisions\/64553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}