{"id":2182,"date":"2008-06-23T10:47:13","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T10:46:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-23T10:46:45","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=2182","title":{"rendered":"Cert. grant: <em>Arizona v. Johnson<\/em>; patdown of passenger with RS he is armed but not committing any offense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTUS granted cert today in <em>Arizona v. Johnson<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourtus.gov\/docket\/07-1122.htm\">07-1122<\/a>.  Issue: Whether, in the context of a vehicular stop for a minor traffic infraction, an officer may conduct a pat-down search of a passenger when the officer has an articulable basis to believe the passenger might be armed and presently dangerous, but had no reasonable grounds to believe that the passenger is committing, or has committed, a criminal offense.<\/p>\n<p>Opinion below is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apltwo.ct.state.az.us\/Decisions\/cr20060079opn.pdf\">State v. Johnson<\/a>, 512 Ariz. Adv. Rep. 3, 170 P.3d 667 (Ariz. App. 2007), posted <a href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/blog\/index.php?blog=1&amp;title=when_is_the_passenger_free_to_leave_if_t&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\">here<\/a>. The Petitioner&#8217;s brief <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/07-1122_pet.pdf\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=2182\">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-2182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182","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=2182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}