{"id":2007,"date":"2008-07-21T15:53:32","date_gmt":"2008-04-21T06:42:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-21T06:42:55","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=2007","title":{"rendered":"Mere possession of a handrolled cigarette not PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mere possession of a handrolled cigarette does not give probable cause to believe that the defendant is in possession of marijuana. The state&#8217;s justification of alleged intoxication was too nebulous to support probable cause. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.state.va.us\/opinions\/opnscvwp\/1070954.pdf\">Buhrman v. Commonwealth<\/a>, 275 Va. 501, 659 S.E.2d 325 (2008).*<\/p>\n<p>Merely being a passenger in a car does not justify a patdown. The justification here was contact with the passenger on a prior occasion, but nothing about this stop gave reasonable suspicion as to the passenger. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.state.va.us\/opinions\/opnscvwp\/1071189.pdf\">McCain v. Commonwealth<\/a>, 275 Va. 546, 659 S.E.2d 512 (2008).*<\/p>\n<p>Merely being a passenger in a stolen car does not justify a <a href=\"http:\/\/caselaw.lp.findlaw.com\/scripts\/getcase.pl?navby=case&amp;court=us&amp;vol=392&amp;page=1\"><em>Terry<\/em><\/a> frisk. The officer still has to give an articulable basis for a frisk, such as an indication that the passenger knew he was in a stolen car. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.wa.gov\/opinions\/index.cfm?fa=opinions.showOpinion&amp;filename=259692MAJ\">State v. Adams<\/a>, 144 Wn. App. 100, 181 P.3d 37 (2008).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=2007\">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-2007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007","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=2007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}