{"id":20908,"date":"2016-02-21T17:17:52","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T22:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20908"},"modified":"2016-02-21T17:17:52","modified_gmt":"2016-02-21T22:17:52","slug":"dc-sitting-in-a-car-looking-in-your-lap-isnt-reasonable-suspicion-of-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20908","title":{"rendered":"DC: Sitting in a car looking in your lap isn&#8217;t reasonable suspicion of anything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officers approached defendant sitting in his Jeep at 14th &#038; U in D.C., looking down into his lap. It turned out he was looking at his phone. The police order to get out of the car was without reasonable suspicion of any wrongdoing. Defendant had brass knuckles on him because he managed two restaurants in the area. The evidence was in dispute whether he admitted he had them or the officer just frisked him. It doesn\u2019t matter: no reasonable suspicion. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dccourts.gov\/internet\/documents\/13-CM-951.pdf\">Sharp v. United States<\/a>, 2016 D.C. App. LEXIS 40 (Feb. 18, 2016).<\/p>\n<p>There was no reasonable suspicion to extend defendant\u2019s stop because of who he allegedly was and because of what he was supposedly doing, and the trial court\u2019s findings do not support any inference of reasonable suspicion on either. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vermontjudiciary.org\/LC\/Supreme%20Court%20Published%20Decisions\/op14-347.pdf\">State v. Alexander<\/a>, 2016 VT 19, 2016 Vt. LEXIS 19 (Feb. 12, 2016).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officers approached defendant sitting in his Jeep at 14th &#038; U in D.C., looking down into his lap. It turned out he was looking at his phone. The police order to get out of the car was without reasonable suspicion &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20908\">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":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20908","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=20908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20909,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20908\/revisions\/20909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}