{"id":1897,"date":"2008-08-31T19:54:53","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T07:03:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-21T07:03:10","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=1897","title":{"rendered":"CA6: Drug courier profile detention unlawful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officer&#8217;s drug courier profile detention was unreasonable&#8211;none of the officer&#8217;s justifications for reasonable suspicion contained any weight at all: People driving from California, the most populous state, cannot be assumed to be drug couriers, the driver&#8217;s nervousness was based on his fears the passenger might have been an illegal because of the officer&#8217;s aggressive questioning, and the nature of the vehicle being driven (a 1996 Mercury Navigator in 2006) were all essentially meaningless. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca6.uscourts.gov\/opinions.pdf\/08a0117p-06.pdf\">United States v. Urrieta<\/a>, 520 F.3d 569. 2008 FED App. 0117P (6th Cir. 2008) (2-1).<\/p>\n<p>Officers had probable cause to believe that defendant illegally possessed a firearm based on the known facts and defendant&#8217;s criminal history. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca3.uscourts.gov\/opinarch\/063725np.pdf\">United States v. Booker<\/a>, 270 Fed. Appx. 176 (3d Cir. 2008) (unpublished).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=1897\">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-1897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897","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=1897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}