{"id":1784,"date":"2008-02-14T11:28:21","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T09:29:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-13T09:29:55","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=1784","title":{"rendered":"Impoundment of vehicle justified its search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant\u2019s vehicle was going to be impounded because of his lack of driver\u2019s license, and the search of the vehicle was related to that purpose. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sconet.state.oh.us\/rod\/docs\/pdf\/3\/2008\/2008-ohio-512.pdf\">State v. O&#8217;Neal<\/a>, 2008 Ohio 512, 2008 Ohio App. LEXIS 458 (3d Dist. February 11, 2008). (<em>Comment:<\/em> There was no claim here that the search did not follow inventory justification for procedures, so that was not addressed.)<\/p>\n<p>The trial court found that the officer had cause for the stop of defendant&#8217;s car for a license plate being either excessively dirty or the bulb being out, and that was probable cause for the stop which survives appellate scrutiny. The argument that the police car&#8217;s video did not help one way or the other really did not matter. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sconet.state.oh.us\/rod\/docs\/pdf\/3\/2008\/2008-ohio-513.pdf\">State v. Numbers<\/a>, 2008 Ohio 513, 2008 Ohio App. LEXIS 447 (3d Dist. February 11, 2008).*<\/p>\n<p>Pro se appellant, whose &#8220;brief is often difficult to follow&#8221; cited no cases in support of his 14 arguments in five pages. He claimed that the seizure of a credit card receipt from the victim violated the Fourth Amendment, but he obviously had no standing to raise that argument. City of Platteville v. Ambort, 2008 Wisc. App. LEXIS 110 (February 7, 2008).* (Ambort is a frequent filer; 12 hits for him on the Wisconsin appellate website.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=1784\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}