{"id":20102,"date":"2015-12-25T00:07:33","date_gmt":"2015-12-25T05:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20102"},"modified":"2015-12-24T17:08:47","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T22:08:47","slug":"fl5-putting-down-a-backpack-when-told-to-by-officer-was-hardly-an-abandonment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20102","title":{"rendered":"FL5: Putting down a backpack when told to by officer was hardly an abandonment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While officer safety is important, it doesn\u2019t always justify a search. The officer told defendant to put down his backpack, and that was not an abandonment of the backpack. Rather, it was submission to authority. There was no legal justification for the search. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.5dca.org\/Opinions\/Opin2015\/121415\/5D14-2434.op.pdf\">K.W. v. State<\/a>, 2015 Fla. App. LEXIS 18961 (Fla. 5th DCA Dec. 18, 2015).<\/p>\n<p>Consent was voluntary on the totality to a BAC test when the officer mentioned a \u201cmandatory blood draw\u201d required because of her three prior DUIs. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsc.state.tn.us\/sites\/default\/files\/richtercarlaopn.pdf\">State v. Richter<\/a>, 2015 Tenn. Crim. App. LEXIS 1034 (Dec. 22, 2015).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While officer safety is important, it doesn\u2019t always justify a search. The officer told defendant to put down his backpack, and that was not an abandonment of the backpack. Rather, it was submission to authority. There was no legal justification &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20102\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-consent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20102","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20103,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20102\/revisions\/20103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}