Unreasonable Expectations: A 4th Amendment Podcast
The Fourth Amendment is having the fight of its life, and every week Unreasonable Expectations breaks down the search and seizure decisions that landed while you were in court. Host Jay Ruane, criminal defense trial lawyer and founder of The Criminal Mastermind, surveys the newest rulings from courts across the country, calls out the wins you can put to work in a case that same day, and flags the losses that could reach your pending files and reshape your case theory. No ivory tower. Plain language, real doctrine, and takeaways you can carry straight into your next suppression hearing. Built...
Unreasonable Expectations: Week Ending "September 14, 2026"
This week's Fourth Amendment decisions from the federal circuit courts, covered case by case.
United States v. Jackson
United States v. Olson Joseph
United States v. Ostertag
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Unreasonable Expectations: Week Ending "September 7, 2026"
This week's Fourth Amendment decisions from the federal circuit courts, covered case by case.
United States v. Robert L. Pennington, Jr.
United States v. Davone Desean Walker
Ruane DUI and Criminal Defense Attorneys provides statewide criminal defense representation throughout Connecticut. We gladly accept referrals of criminal and DUI defense cases.
Fairfield and New Haven Counties: 203-925-9200
Hartford County and Eastern Connecticut: 860-925-9200
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Unreasonable Expectations: Week Ending "August 31, 2026"
This week's Fourth Amendment decisions from the federal circuit courts, covered case by case.
Ruane DUI and Criminal Defense Attorneys provides statewide criminal defense representation throughout Connecticut. We gladly accept referrals of criminal and DUI defense cases.
Fairfield and New Haven Counties: 203-925-9200
Hartford County and Eastern Connecticut: 860-925-9200
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Unreasonable Expectations: Week Ending "August 26, 2026"
This week's Fourth Amendment decisions from the federal circuit courts, covered case by case.
Ruane DUI and Criminal Defense Attorneys provides statewide criminal defense representation throughout Connecticut. We gladly accept referrals of criminal and DUI defense cases.
Fairfield and New Haven Counties: 203-925-9200
Hartford County and Eastern Connecticut: 860-925-9200
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Unreasonable Expectations: Week Ending "August 17, 2026"
This week's Fourth Amendment decisions from the federal circuit courts, covered case by case.
Ruane DUI and Criminal Defense Attorneys provides statewide criminal defense representation throughout Connecticut. We gladly accept referrals of criminal and DUI defense cases.
Fairfield and New Haven Counties: 203-925-9200
Hartford County and Eastern Connecticut: 860-925-9200
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Unreasonable Expectations: Week Ending "August 10, 2026"
This week's Fourth Amendment decisions from the federal circuit courts, covered case by case.
Ruane DUI and Criminal Defense Attorneys provides statewide criminal defense representation throughout Connecticut. We gladly accept referrals of criminal and DUI defense cases.
Fairfield and New Haven Counties: 203-925-9200
Hartford County and Eastern Connecticut: 860-925-9200
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Unreasonable Expectations: Week Ending "August 3, 2026"
This week's Fourth Amendment decisions from the federal circuit courts, covered case by case.
Ruane DUI and Criminal Defense Attorneys provides statewide criminal defense representation throughout Connecticut. We gladly accept referrals of criminal and DUI defense cases.
Fairfield and New Haven Counties: 203-925-9200
Hartford County and Eastern Connecticut: 860-925-9200
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Unreasonable Expectations: Week Ending: July 27, 2026
This week's federal circuit decisions redrawing the boundaries of the Fourth Amendment (and the constitutional issues around it) for criminal defense practitioners. Seven decisions, in order:
Jones v. City of St. Louis (8th Cir., 7/27/26): Section 1983 excessive-force claims by four pretrial detainees, and the court's case-by-case qualified-immunity analysis.Horocofsky v. City of Lawrence (10th Cir., 7/24/26): Denial of leave to amend affirmed on Rule 16 procedural grounds.United States v. Williams (6th Cir., 7/24/26): How an unconditional guilty plea waives your pretrial suppression motions. No Fourth Amendment ruling on the merits.Carrin v. Strong (11th Cir., 7/23/26): Whether Bivens still offers a damages...Unreasonable Expectations: Week Ending "July 20, 2026"
This week's Fourth Amendment decisions from the federal circuit courts, covered case by case.
Ruane DUI and Criminal Defense Attorneys provides statewide criminal defense representation throughout Connecticut. We gladly accept referrals of criminal and DUI defense cases.
Fairfield and New Haven Counties: 203-925-9200
Hartford County and Eastern Connecticut: 860-925-9200
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Unreasonable Expectations: Week Ending "July 14, 2026"
This week's Fourth Amendment decisions from the federal circuit courts, covered case by case.
Ruane DUI and Criminal Defense Attorneys provides statewide criminal defense representation throughout Connecticut. We gladly accept referrals of criminal and DUI defense cases.
Fairfield and New Haven Counties: 203-925-9200
Hartford County and Eastern Connecticut: 860-925-9200
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Episode 2: ALPR and Chatrie - Where do we go from here?
There is a camera on a pole outside your office, and it is reading every plate that drives past. After Chatrie v. United States, does law enforcement need a warrant to search where your client's car has been? In this point-counterpoint episode, Jay Ruane argues both sides of automatic license plate readers as hard as he can, then tells you where the law actually stands.
You get five arguments that a warrantless ALPR network is unconstitutional and five that it is lawful, built on Carpenter, Jones, Knotts, and New York v. Class, plus the ALPR-specific rulings that...
Episode 1: Chatrie v. United States (The Day Your Phone's Location History Became a Search)
A man robbed a Virginia credit union with a phone to his ear, and that one detail sent the case all the way to the Supreme Court. In the debut episode of Unreasonable Expectations, Jay Ruane breaks down Chatrie v. United States, decided June 29, 2026, the ruling that answers a question defense lawyers have fought over for years: does the government need a warrant to pull your client's Google Location History through a geofence?
Jay walks through the facts, the three-step geofence process, and the wild road this case took to the Court, then unpacks how Justice Kagan's...
