{"id":9909,"date":"2013-12-04T08:18:49","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T08:18:49","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T08:18:49","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9909","title":{"rendered":"NC: CI PC threshold is \u201clow\u201d but it still has to be met; curtilage admittedly violated; suppression affirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The threshold for supporting a CI is low, but it still has to be met, and here it wasn\u2019t. There was no showing at all in the affidavit for SW how the CI was reliable, just a conclusory statement. Then the police entered the curtilage, admittedly illegally, to make observations which supported the claim of PC, but they really didn\u2019t, except for a marijuana smell. The warrant was suppressed, and the factual findings of the trial court are supported by the evidence, so suppression is affirmed. <a href=\"http:\/\/appellate.nccourts.org\/opinions\/?c=2&amp;pdf=MjAxMy8xMy0zMDUtMS5wZGY=\">State v. Benters<\/a>, 2013 N.C. App. LEXIS 1237 (December 3, 2013).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefendant further contends that subjecting him to SBM [satellite based monitoring as a convicted sex offender] violates his right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure under our federal and state constitutions. This Court recently addressed and rejected this precise argument in State v. Martin, __ N.C. App. ___, 735 S.E.2d 238 (2012). Accordingly, this argument is overruled.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/appellate.nccourts.org\/opinions\/?c=2&amp;pdf=MjAxMy8xMy0yODYtMS5wZGY=\">State v. Jones<\/a>, 2013 N.C. App. LEXIS 1233 (December 3, 2013).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9909\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9909","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}