{"id":64767,"date":"2026-09-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64767"},"modified":"2026-09-07T11:39:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T16:39:05","slug":"fl4-officers-two-hour-delay-in-seeking-bac-sw-wasnt-itself-exigency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64767","title":{"rendered":"FL4: Officer&#8217;s two-hour delay in seeking BAC SW wasn&#8217;t itself exigency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Officers called a state\u2019s attorney for advice on a BAC blood draw and were told to get a warrant. After waiting two hours, they decided they had exigent circumstances. Suppressed and affirmed. <a href=\"https:\/\/flcourts-media.flcourts.gov\/content\/download\/2494722\/opinion\/Opinion_2025-1448.pdf\">State v. Marlin<\/a>, 2026 Fla. App. LEXIS 6797 (Fla. 4th DCA Sep. 2, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant\u2019s guilty plea waived his Fourth Amendment challenge, even though other circuits in similar cases would have granted relief. United States v. Polk, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 26986 (3d Cir. Sep. 2, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2255 petitioner litigated his searches pretrial. His 2255 request for search inventories is moot. Lettieri v. United States, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 197845 (W.D.N.Y. Sep. 1, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jailer seeing plaintiff sitting on toilet doesn\u2019t state a Fourth Amendment claim. Jackson v. Deplatchett, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 197922 (W.D. Pa. Aug. 28, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officers called a state\u2019s attorney for advice on a BAC blood draw and were told to get a warrant. After waiting two hours, they decided they had exigent circumstances. Suppressed and affirmed. State v. Marlin, 2026 Fla. App. LEXIS 6797 &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64767\">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":[45,55,3,144,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-45","category-drug-testing","category-emergency-exigency","category-mootness","category-waiver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64767","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=64767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64768,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64767\/revisions\/64768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}