{"id":233556,"date":"2026-05-16T05:27:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T05:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/233556\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T05:27:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T05:27:15","slug":"judge-barry-kamins-leads-search-and-seizure-cle-for-kccba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/233556\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Barry Kamins leads \u2018Search and Seizure\u2019 CLE for KCCBA"},"content":{"rendered":"

The defense argued that it was a \u201creverse warrant,\u201d searching everyone first, then finding suspects, violating the Fourth Amendment\u2019s particularity requirement.<\/p>\n

The prosecution argued that the warrant was limited by time and geography. The court ultimately allowed the geofence evidence, finding that the warrant was sufficiently particularized in scope and the procedure did not automatically violate the Fourth Amendment.<\/p>\n

Even though it is not a Supreme Court case, \u201cMangano\u201d is important today because it shows how lower courts are currently handling geofence warrants.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kamins addressed iCards, a written record officers complete when they stop or question someone on the street, conduct a frisk or make an arrest in connection with a stop. They are directly tied to search and seizure law because they document and help justify the street encounters governed by the Fourth Amendment and the People v. De Bour framework.<\/p>\n

Today, iCards function as constitutional accountability records and data sources used for pattern-and-practice analysis and litigation in Fourth Amendment cases. They are also part of why the stop-and-frisk law in New York is heavily documented compared to many other jurisdictions.<\/p>\n

\u201cI firmly believe that iCards will most certainly change a lot of protocols in the District Attorney\u2019s office,\u201d Kamins said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Probable cause\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cCourts are always tinkering with this formula, as far as what is probable cause,\u201d Kamins said of probable cause. \u201cYou\u2019ve got to have very certain, specific factors.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kamins cited McCray v. Illinois, a case involving defendant Willie McCray, where police officers received information from a confidential informant that McCray was selling narcotics. The officers knew the informant from prior dealings and testified that the informant had proven reliable in the past. Police arrested McCray and found heroin.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the end, the Supreme Court held that police may establish probable cause based on information from a reliable confidential informant without necessarily revealing the informant\u2019s identity in court. This became an important rule in Fourth Amendment law.<\/p>\n

Attorney feedback\u00a0<\/p>\n

Legal professionals in the room shared their thoughts on Kamins\u2019s presentation. <\/p>\n

\"William<\/a>William Neri, Esq. Photo: Mario Belluomo\/Brooklyn Eagle<\/p>\n

Kings County Criminal Bar Association President and attorney Michael Sheinberg said that Kamins \u201cdid a fantastic job.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThings change so fast in the legal world regarding Search and Seizure,\u201d Sheinberg said. \u201cThis is really something that defense attorneys and prosecutors should be listening to. Barry is a wonderful presenter and a total expert on the subject.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Darran Winslow, Esq., echoed those sentiments: \u201cAny chance I get to hear Judge Kamins is a chance to become educated. He\u2019s fantastic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Winslow added that every time he observes Kamins in action, it improves how he approaches his practice.<\/p>\n

Kamins, a retired Supreme Court justice, was previously administrative judge of the Criminal Court of New York City, administrative judge for Criminal Matters for the Second Judicial District and chief of Policy and Planning for the New York Court System.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He was appointed Criminal Court judge by former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2008 and elevated to acting Supreme Court justice in 2009. Kamins was ultimately elected State Supreme Court Justice in 2013.<\/p>\n

The retired judge is also known for his unique sense of style \u2014 most notably, his signature bow ties, which he told the Brooklyn Eagle he acquired a taste for when he was in private practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The defense argued that it was a \u201creverse warrant,\u201d searching everyone first, then finding suspects, violating the Fourth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[36578,98,10076,100,99,16043,3308,39414,15313,9,24,63,4116],"class_list":["post-233556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-barry-kamins","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-bar-association-bba","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-continuing-legal-education-cle","tag-daily-bulletin","tag-kings-county-criminal-bar-association-kccba","tag-legal-community","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-wayne-daren-schneiderman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}