{"id":1969,"date":"2008-09-12T15:05:18","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T05:35:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T05:35:04","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=1969","title":{"rendered":"Government&#8217;s claim of consent fails because it was an unjustified inventory; officer&#8217;s own reports belied consent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government&#8217;s claim of consent in this case was post hoc at best because it was done as an inventory, and it was invalid at that. The officer&#8217;s own police reports undercut the government&#8217;s claim that consent was the issue. United States v. Jackson, 560 F. Supp. 2d 331 (D. Del. 2008).*<\/p>\n<p>Defendant&#8217;s suspected attempted meeting with a prostitute on the street viewed by a vice officer was reasonable suspicion. &#8220;While certainly Luqman can create any number of possible innocent explanations for these actions, we need not adopt those singular explanations. Rather, the question is whether, when looking at the facts in total, the officers had reason to believe that criminal activity was afoot. The answer here is yes.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca6.uscourts.gov\/opinions.pdf\/08a0144p-06.pdf\">United States v. Luqman<\/a>, 522 F.3d 613, 2008 FED App. 0144P (6th Cir. 2008).*<\/p>\n<p>Officer had reasonable suspicion from a collection of circumstances, one of which was saying that he got the car from a stripper named &#8220;Fluff&#8221; when the car was registered to a man. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca11.uscourts.gov\/unpub\/ops\/200712835.pdf\">United States v. Robinson<\/a>, 2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 7459 (11th Cir. April 2, 2008) (unpublished).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=1969\">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-1969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969","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=1969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}