{"id":10190,"date":"2014-01-11T10:19:54","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T08:45:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-05-29T21:06:19","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T02:06:19","slug":"en-us-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10190","title":{"rendered":"N.D.Iowa: Meth pipe in pocket subject to plain feel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant was validly stopped for a visual estimate of his speed. He was sweating profusely, and his shirt was wet, and, out of the car, he acted as if he was in a daze. Shortly after the stop, the officer was told on a secure radio channel that defendant was involved in drugs. Basic questions produced inconsistent answers. A dog sniff was valid as was a patdown. The meth pipe was seized from his pocket by plain feel. United States v. Gaffney, 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 2143 (N.D. Iowa January 8, 2014).<\/p>\n<p>Plaintiffs\u2019 proposed excessive force jury instructions were substantially covered by the jury instructions given, so there was no plain error. <a href=\"http:\/\/pacer.ca4.uscourts.gov\/opinion.pdf\/121994.U.pdf\">Gray v. Bd. of County Comm&#8217;rs<\/a>, 551 Fed. Appx. 666 (4th Cir. 2014).*<\/p>\n<p>Texas law requires a blood draw for a DWI 3d, and the implied consent law was good enough. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.search.txcourts.gov\/SearchMedia.aspx?MediaVersionID=da313eda-d9dc-493e-8ade-3619b1126eb0&amp;MediaID=07938bdc-515c-4540-b09c-0d5f9275cab6&amp;coa=%22%20+%20this.CurrentWebState.CurrentCourt%20+%20@%22&amp;DT=Opinion\">Reeder v. State<\/a>, 2014 Tex. App. LEXIS 147 (Tex. App. \u2013 Texarkana January 8, 2014).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10190\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10190","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=10190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11772,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10190\/revisions\/11772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}