{"id":13327,"date":"2014-09-18T01:00:59","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T06:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13327"},"modified":"2014-09-19T17:39:42","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T22:39:42","slug":"mi-misread-license-plate-partially-obscured-by-trailer-hitch-didnt-support-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13327","title":{"rendered":"MI: Misread license plate partially obscured by trailer hitch didn&#8217;t support stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant\u2019s traffic stop was invalid because the officer misread the license number before entering it for a random check because it was partially blocked by a trailer hitch. \u201cCommon experience reveals that thousands of vehicles in Michigan are equipped with trailer hitches and towing balls.\u201d There is no evidence the license plate itself was unreadable. <a href=\"http:\/\/publicdocs.courts.mi.gov:81\/OPINIONS\/FINAL\/COA\/20140909_C314877_54_314877.OPN.PDF\">People v. Dunbar<\/a>, 2014 Mich. App. LEXIS 1662 (September 9, 2014) (2-1: <a href=\"http:\/\/publicdocs.courts.mi.gov:81\/OPINIONS\/FINAL\/COA\/20140909_C314877_55_314877C.OPN.PDF\">concur<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/publicdocs.courts.mi.gov:81\/OPINIONS\/FINAL\/COA\/20140909_C314877_56_314877D.OPN.PDF\">dissent<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Defendant\u2019s consent was valid. He gave express or implied consent three times both pre-Miranda and post-Miranda. United States v. Bretado, 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 126616 (N.D. Okla. September 10, 2014).*<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefendant&#8217;s half-hearted challenge to the legality of the initial stop is meritless.\u201d It is undisputed he was speeding. The stop was reasonable in duration, too. United States v. Frizzell, 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 124945 (S.D. W.Va.  September 8, 2014).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant\u2019s traffic stop was invalid because the officer misread the license number before entering it for a random check because it was partially blocked by a trailer hitch. \u201cCommon experience reveals that thousands of vehicles in Michigan are equipped with &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13327\">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":[24,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consent","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13327","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=13327"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13384,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13327\/revisions\/13384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}