{"id":11843,"date":"2014-06-03T07:15:49","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T12:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=11843"},"modified":"2014-06-03T07:15:49","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T12:15:49","slug":"or-officer-training-and-experience-is-not-a-magical-incantation-with-the-power-to-imbue-speculation-stereotype-or-pseudoscience-with-an-impenetrable-armor-of-veracity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=11843","title":{"rendered":"OR:  Officer \u201c\u2018training and experience\u2019 is not a magical incantation with the power to imbue speculation, stereotype, or pseudoscience with an impenetrable armor of veracity.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant had used drugs in the past and his girlfriend was likely a user, but that didn\u2019t create reasonable suspicion for continuing this stop. Officer \u201c\u2018training and experience\u2019 is not a magical incantation with the power to imbue speculation, stereotype, or pseudoscience with an impenetrable armor of veracity.\u201d  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publications.ojd.state.or.us\/docs\/A151253.pdf\">State v. Heater<\/a>, 263 Or. App. __, 2014 Ore. App. LEXIS 727 (May 29, 2014):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For an officer&#8217;s suspicion to be objectively reasonable, the officer must be able to &#8220;point to specific and articulable facts&#8221; that justify the officer&#8217;s suspicion. State v. Ehly, 317 Ore. 66, 80, 854 P.2d 421 (1993). An officer&#8217;s experience is &#8220;relevant to what inferences the officer may draw from the circumstances. But, an officer&#8217;s experience cannot form the entire basis for reasonable suspicion.&#8221; State v. Martin, 260 Ore. App. 461, 470, 317 P.3d 408 (2014) (internal citations omitted); see also State v. Alvarado, 257 Ore. App. 612, 631, 307 P.3d 540 (2013) (&#8220;An officer&#8217;s training and experience are relevant to, and may help explain why, a particular circumstance is suspicious. We have also recognized, however, that the phrase &#8216;training and experience&#8217; is not a magical incantation with the power to imbue speculation, stereotype, or pseudoscience with an impenetrable armor of veracity.&#8221;) (internal citations, punctuation, and quotations omitted)).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant had used drugs in the past and his girlfriend was likely a user, but that didn\u2019t create reasonable suspicion for continuing this stop. Officer \u201c\u2018training and experience\u2019 is not a magical incantation with the power to imbue speculation, stereotype, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=11843\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11843","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=11843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11844,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11843\/revisions\/11844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}