{"id":10676,"date":"2014-03-30T12:44:14","date_gmt":"2014-03-30T18:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/wordpress\/?p=10676"},"modified":"2014-04-13T11:42:41","modified_gmt":"2014-04-13T17:42:41","slug":"denver-post-colorado-man-sues-idaho-police-over-license-plate-profiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10676","title":{"rendered":"Denver Post: Colorado man sues Idaho police over &#8220;license-plate profiling&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denver Post: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/news\/ci_25449678\/colorado-man-sues-idaho-police-over-license-plate#ixzz2xSt89rLp\">Colorado man sues Idaho police over &#8220;license-plate profiling&#8221;<\/a> by Alison Noon:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Colorado resident has filed a lawsuit claiming he was the victim of what his attorney calls &#8220;license-plate profiling&#8221; during a road trip through Idaho last year.<\/p>\n<p>Darien Roseen filed the federal lawsuit Wednesday in the District of Idaho, more than a year after he said he was unlawfully detained and searched for marijuana on the basis of his Colorado license plates.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Coonts, one of three attorneys on the case, said the 69-year-old was cleared after local law enforcement officers in Payette County, Idaho, detained Roseen and for hours searched his Honda Ridgeline truck for the source of an alleged pot smell.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is, of course, not new. Drive through Arkansas on I-40 with a West Coast or Arizona license plate and you <em>will<\/em> be stopped. Then they always say they smell marijuana, whether they do or not. Particularly if you have California plates. Arkansas police naturally assume that there is no non-nefarious reason to be one of California&#8217;s 35 million residents driving east except with a load of diverted high grade medical marijuana. Now it will be Colorado plates. That&#8217;s why we call this state the &#8220;Land of Opportunity&#8221; instead of something more profound like &#8220;The Constitution State&#8221; (CT) or have a state motto like &#8220;Live Free or Die&#8221; (NH) or &#8220;Thus always to tyrants&#8221; (VA). Our tourism motto should be &#8220;Come on vacation, leave on probation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As for racial profiling, an African-American AUSA here a few months ago was stopped because he happened to be driving through one of those nearly all-white Arkansas <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sundown_town\">sundowner<\/a> counties. The cop said he could smell marijuana. And, what a boon that&#8217;s been for the civil liberties: Now the USAO knows that cops lie about &#8220;smell[ing] marijuana&#8221; because it happened to one of them who just happens to do only drug cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denver Post: Colorado man sues Idaho police over &#8220;license-plate profiling&#8221; by Alison Noon:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10676","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10677,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10676\/revisions\/10677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}