4th Amendment – Sandy Rosenberg

Compromise is the order of the 90 days.

Some examples from the 79^th day.

On the House floor, nobody raised concerns about my bill to criminalize certain conduct by either side of a referendum petition effort.

A Rosenberg bill on election law usually generates skeptical (but misguided) questions from my Republican colleagues.

This time, however, the bill had been amended to reflect the compromise reached by Delegate Parrott, a Republican, and myself.

I’m no scholar when it comes to the 4^th Amendment and search warrants.

But I do know that prosecutors and the police will be one side, the Public Defender and the American Civil Liberties union on the other.

I played a supporting role in a meeting where we tried to find common ground on a bill dealing with cell phones and search warrants.

Lastly, even after your legislation is dead, a compromise may be possible.

Can you get the bill’s opponents, who opposed requiring them to do something, to agree to do so voluntarily?

The support of the chair of the committee that killed your bill can bring that about.

I don’t claim to be a 4^th Amendment scholar.

What I remember from law school: if a person has a reasonable expectation of privacy, the police must get a warrant before searching that person’s home or car.

But does that mean the police need to have a judge’s approval to learn a suspect’s real-time location by obtaining that information from a cell phone service provider?

Prosecutors, police, and defense attorney know this area of the law backwards and forwards.

However, they don’t always agree on when that reasonable expectation of privacy exists and what the police should do when it does.

The prosecutors and police have proposed amendments to House Bill 460.

The lobbyist for the Public Defender joined them at Friday’s meeting.

I asked the group if they could narrow their differences.

They kept negotiating when I left for another appointment.

When that other meeting ended, the door was still closed where the 4^th Amendment was being considered.

I left them alone. They didn’t need me.

Afterwards, my law student intern told me that progress had been made.

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Compromised positions

Reasonable expectation of progress

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