{"id":21121,"date":"2016-03-03T07:35:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T12:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=21121"},"modified":"2016-03-03T07:35:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T12:35:11","slug":"bluefield-wv-daily-telegraph-high-court-ruling-threatens-to-end-santa-stops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=21121","title":{"rendered":"Bluefield (WV) Daily Telegraph: High court ruling threatens to end \u2018Santa Stops\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bluefield (WV) Daily Telegraph: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bdtonline.com\/news\/high-court-ruling-threatens-to-end-santa-stops\/article_0c0b9432-e0f5-11e5-bd93-0380a6801de3.html\">High court ruling threatens to end \u2018Santa Stops\u2019<\/a> by Samantha Perry:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>PRINCETON \u2014 A recent high court ruling threatened to put the brakes on the popular law enforcement \u201cSanta Stops,\u201d however local troopers have found a way to continue the holiday tradition while staying within the boundaries of the law.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent memo to law enforcement agencies, Mercer County Prosecuting Attorney Scott Ash pointed out that these stops are a violation of the Fourth Amendment, even though officers are simply committing \u201crandom acts of kindness.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Police officers who don&#8217;t appreciate the nervousness that a police stop creates &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bluefield (WV) Daily Telegraph: High court ruling threatens to end \u2018Santa Stops\u2019 by Samantha Perry: PRINCETON \u2014 A recent high court ruling threatened to put the brakes on the popular law enforcement \u201cSanta Stops,\u201d however local troopers have found a &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=21121\">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":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seizure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21121","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=21121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21122,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21121\/revisions\/21122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}