The Ultimate Fourth Amendment Framework

The validity of a search or seizure by law enforcement can make or break a criminal case. In a free Justia webinar, a former law enforcement officer turned attorney outlines the key rules of Fourth Amendment analysis before applying them to commonly disputed situations.

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The Ultimate Fourth Amendment Framework

Save your spot today! This 90-minute session gives attorneys a complete analytical framework for evaluating any Fourth Amendment search or seizure issue. Anthony Bandiero, a former law enforcement officer turned attorney who has trained more than 100,000 officers nationwide, opens with the golden rules that govern every search and seizure analysis, then addresses the threshold question of when the Fourth Amendment applies at all under the government action and private search doctrines.

This Free Justia Webinar The Ultimate Fourth Amendment Framework will begin promptly at 1:00 P.M. ET / 10:00 A.M. PT on Thursday, October 1, 2026.

The session then applies the framework where most litigation lives: the home and its curtilage, knock and talks after Florida v. Jardines, hot pursuit and exigent entries, and community caretaking after Caniglia v. Strom. From there it turns to the reasonable expectation of privacy in the modern era, from Katz through the trespass theory revived in United States v. Jones and the tire-chalking cases, and closes with the vehicle exception under Carroll and Chambers. Attendees will leave with a repeatable structure for spotting suppression issues, evaluating officer conduct, and advising law enforcement clients.

Agenda

• The Framework and the Golden Rules
  • Fourth Amendment text and structure
  • The golden rules of search and seizure analysis
  • How courts weigh probabilities and reasonableness
• Government Action and the Private Search Doctrine
  • When the Fourth Amendment applies at all
  • Searches by private security, hotel staff, and other third parties
• Homes, Curtilage, and Warrantless Entries
  • Curtilage
  • Knock and talks after Florida v. Jardines
  • Artificial vantage points
  • Hot pursuit
  • Exigent circumstances
  • Community caretaking after Caniglia v. Strom
• Reasonable Expectation of Privacy in the Modern Era
  • Katz and the two-part test
  • The 100-person test
  • Social media exposure
  • The Jones trespass theory
  • The tire-chalking cases
• The Vehicle Exception
  • Carroll v. United States
  • Chambers v. Maroney
  • Why exigency is not required
  • The scope and limits of the exception
• Q&A (As Time Permits)

Speaker

Anthony Bandiero

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Blue to Gold, LLC
Speaker Profile

Anthony Bandiero, JD, ALM, is a police officer turned attorney who has spent his career making constitutional law usable on the street. He has trained more than 100,000 officers in 47 states in Fourth Amendment law, search and seizure, and constitutional policing.

He served in law enforcement, first as a municipal police officer and then as a sergeant with the Nevada Highway Patrol. He saw firsthand how little practical legal training officers actually receive, and what that gap costs agencies in suppressed evidence, failed prosecutions, and civil liability. He went to law school to close that gap, graduating summa cum laude from Gonzaga University School of Law. He also holds a Master of Liberal Arts in Government and a Bachelor of Liberal Arts from Harvard University, and is a graduate of Northwestern University’s School of Police Staff and Command. He is admitted to practice in Idaho, Washington, and New Jersey, and before the United States Supreme Court.

Today Blue to Gold is the nation’s leading provider of legal training for law enforcement, serving more than 7,000 agencies through in-person courses, on-demand instruction, published field guides, and the Legal Roll Call weekly legal update program. Anthony is the author of the Search and Seizure Survival Guide series, covering all fifty states plus a federal edition, the Reasonable Suspicion and Probable Cause Pocket Guide, the Miranda Survival Guide, and Bulletproof Report Writing. He serves as a search and seizure consultant to police and sheriff’s agencies across the country and as an expert witness in use of force and search and seizure litigation. He also maintains a firearms and federal licensing law practice as principal of The FFL Lawyer.

Attend one of his presentations and you will see why agencies bring him back: high energy, plain language, real scenarios, and no wasted time.

Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Credits

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Alabama CLE
Status: Approved
Format: Live (Virtual)
Credits: 1.50 General

Alaska CLE
Status: Approved
Format: Live (Virtual), On-Demand
Credits: 1.50 General

California CLE
Status: Approved
Format: Live (Virtual), On-Demand
Credits: 1.50 General

Hawaii CLE
Status: Approved
Format: Live (Virtual), On-Demand
Credits: 1.50 General

Illinois CLE
Status: Approved
Format: Live (Virtual), On-Demand
Credits: 1.50 General

Missouri CLE
Status: Approved
Format: Live (Virtual)
Credits: 1.80 General

Nevada CLE
Status: Approved
Format: Live (Virtual)
Credits: 1.50 General

New Jersey CLE
Status: Approved
Format: Live (Virtual), On-Demand
Credits: 1.80 General

North Carolina CLE
Status: Approved
Format: Live (Virtual)
Credits: 1.50 General

Ohio CLE
Status: Approved
Format: Live (Virtual)
Credits: 1.50 General

Pennsylvania CLE
Status: Approved
Format: Live (Virtual), On-Demand
Credits: 1.50 Substantive Law, Practice, and Procedure

Texas CLE
Status: Approved
Format: Live (Virtual)
Credits: 1.50 General

Vermont CLE
Status: Approved
Format: Live (Virtual), On-Demand
Credits: 1.50 General

West Virginia CLE
Status: Approved
Format: Live (Virtual)
Credits: 1.80 General

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