{"id":15759,"date":"2015-02-06T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T20:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15759"},"modified":"2015-02-09T14:58:57","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T19:58:57","slug":"il-stop-of-man-walking-on-median-of-divided-highway-justified-by-community-caretaking-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15759","title":{"rendered":"IL: Stop of man walking on median of divided highway justified by community caretaking function"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant\u2019s stop was based on the community caretaking function because he was walking on the median of a divided highway approaching evening on a hot summer day and there was no apparent reason for that. His conviction of resisting, however, is reversed. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.il.us\/court\/Opinions\/AppellateCourt\/2015\/2ndDistrict\/2130528.pdf\">People v. Slaymaker<\/a>, 2015 IL App (2d) 130528, 2015 Ill. App. LEXIS 67 (February 3, 2015).*<\/p>\n<p>There was no reasonable suspicion for continuing defendant\u2019s detention for 40 minutes so a drug dog could get there. Trial court granted motion to suppress and reversed. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcourts.gov\/Portals\/0\/OpinionFiles\/Div1\/2015\/1%20CA-CR13-0655.pdf\">State v. Woods<\/a>, 2015 Ariz. App. LEXIS 13 (February 3, 2015).*<\/p>\n<p>Hitting the fog line three times in a short distance was reasonable suspicion for defendant\u2019s stop. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsc.state.tn.us\/sites\/default\/files\/smithlinzeydanielleopn.pdf\">State v. Smith<\/a>, 2015 Tenn. Crim. App. LEXIS 70 (February 2, 2015).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant\u2019s stop was based on the community caretaking function because he was walking on the median of a divided highway approaching evening on a hot summer day and there was no apparent reason for that. His conviction of resisting, however, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15759\">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":[74,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-caretaking-function","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15759","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=15759"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15803,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15759\/revisions\/15803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}