Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> Fourth Amendment

Criminal Law

: Fourth Amendment

OH10: Fist bump in high crime area was reasonable suspicion

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

Defendant was asked for consent to search his car, and he said "That'd be fine if you have a key." The defendant did not have a key, and he said that his girlfriend had the key, but she was not around. The officer found a key on the ground and searched the car. The defendant's statement was consent, not a denial of consent. United States v. Washington, 2009 U.S. App. LEXIS 5463 (11th Cir. March 16, 2009) (unpublished).* It was reasonable for the search warrant for child pornography to include computer media where the officers had reason to believe that defendant used the internet to access the child porn. Here, a nosy cabinet installer found child porn in defendant's filing cabinet and put it back but told the police. He described it as coming from the internet because of computer markings on the page of the printout...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on March 20, 2009 (boomark / email).