{"id":10161,"date":"2014-02-01T13:17:44","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T10:42:17","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T10:42:17","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10161","title":{"rendered":"PA: Possession of a car is indicative of standing, but it&#8217;s not controlling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being in possession of and driving a car is indicative of standing, but it only a factor. More is required. The trial court\u2019s conclusion on the probable cause question is a mixed question of law and fact, and the appellate court disagrees here that there was probable cause for a search of defendant\u2019s car. The police had reasonable suspicion but not probable cause. Therefore, the motion to suppress should have been granted. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-A19016-13o.pdf?cb=3\">Commonwealth v. Newman<\/a>, 2014 Pa. Super. LEXIS 2 (January 6, 2014).*<\/p>\n<p>Officers had reason to stop defendant for taillights and no LPN. He consented to a search of his person and a contact lens case which had methamphetamine in it. <a href=\"http:\/\/media.ca8.uscourts.gov\/opndir\/14\/01\/123397P.pdf\">United States v. Stringer<\/a>, 739 F.3d 391 (8th Cir. 2014).*<\/p>\n<p>Defendant was charged with contempt and witness tampering. There was probable cause and nexus to his house for a search warrant. United States v. Walker, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 182429 (D. Minn. December 4, 2013),* adopted 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 692 (D. Minn. January 3, 2014).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10161\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}