{"id":1981,"date":"2009-03-04T13:39:46","date_gmt":"2008-04-12T06:10:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-12T06:10:07","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=1981","title":{"rendered":"Second encounter during stop was invalid; defendant should have been allowed to leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First encounter with driver from the passenger window revealed no criminality, and defendant should have been allowed to go. Instead, the officer re-approached the car for a second contact and ordered him to roll down the window, which he did, and he saw a crack pipe. The second encounter was unjustified, and the search suppressed. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.2dca.org\/opinion\/April%2004,%202008\/2D06-592.pdf\">Greider v. State<\/a>, 977 So. 2d 789 (Fla. App. 2d DCA 2008).*<\/p>\n<p>Officer had cause to search when he smelled marijuana coming from the open window, and the defendant&#8217;s voice began quavering. Bunch v. Commonwealth, 51 Va. App. 491 (2008).*<\/p>\n<p>Search of defendant&#8217;s purse was justified by officer&#8217;s fear of a weapon. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wicourts.gov\/ca\/opinion\/DisplayDocument.pdf?content=pdf&amp;seqNo=32352\">State v. Limon<\/a>, 2008 WI App 77, 312 Wis. 2d 174, 751 N.W.2d 877 (2008).*<\/p>\n<p>Officer had cause to arrest defendant after accident who admitted he was taking drugs but not what or why. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3rdcoa.courts.state.tx.us\/opinions\/HTMLOpinion.asp?OpinionID=16708\">Alonzo v. State<\/a>, 251 S.W.3d 203 (Tex. App. \u2014 Austin 2008).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=1981\">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-1981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981","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=1981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}