{"id":11864,"date":"2014-06-04T07:45:38","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T12:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=11864"},"modified":"2014-06-04T07:45:38","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T12:45:38","slug":"pa-the-contents-of-a-prescription-pill-bottle-are-not-in-plain-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=11864","title":{"rendered":"PA: The contents of a prescription pill bottle are not in plain view"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During defendant\u2019s traffic stop, the officer saw a pill bottle. The contents are not in plain view or searchable under the automobile exception. It turned out it was defendant\u2019s prescription medication. The state\u2019s nolle pros motion filed after a notice of appeal is a nullity. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-S14008-14o%20-%201018274582272741.pdf?cb=1\">Commonwealth v. Hudson<\/a>, 2014 PA Super 111, 2014 Pa. Super. LEXIS 1165 (May 30, 2014).<\/p>\n<p>Defendant was called and requested, not ordered, to return to the scene of an accident. He voluntarily returned, and that call was not a seizure. He was found DUI when he got there. <a href=\"http:\/\/supremecourt.ne.gov\/sites\/supremecourt.ne.gov\/files\/sc\/opinions\/s13-666.pdf\">State v. Avey<\/a>, 288 Neb. 233, 2014 Neb. LEXIS 84 (May 30, 2014).*<\/p>\n<p>A failed tag light can support a stop. United States v. Harris, 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 75224 (N.D. W.Va. May 8, 2014).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During defendant\u2019s traffic stop, the officer saw a pill bottle. The contents are not in plain view or searchable under the automobile exception. It turned out it was defendant\u2019s prescription medication. The state\u2019s nolle pros motion filed after a notice &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=11864\">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":[24,51,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consent","category-plain-view","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11864","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=11864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11865,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11864\/revisions\/11865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}