{"id":22072,"date":"2016-05-11T18:44:40","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T23:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=22072"},"modified":"2016-05-11T18:44:40","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T23:44:40","slug":"tn-driver-slumped-over-wheel-of-running-car-justified-opening-the-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=22072","title":{"rendered":"TN: Driver slumped over wheel of running car justified opening the door"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant was seen parked in front of a store slumped over the steering wheel. The community caretaking function permitted officers to open the door to check on him. The community caretaking function isn\u2019t limited to consensual encounters. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsc.state.tn.us\/sites\/default\/files\/mccormickk_opn.pdf\">State v. McCormick<\/a>, 2016 Tenn. LEXIS 318 (May 10, 2016).<\/p>\n<p>Plaintiff failed to show that it was entirely unreasonable for a sheriff&#8217;s deputy to believe that he had probable cause to arrest plaintiff for making harassing phone calls and terroristic threats. Even if the magistrate mistakenly issued the arrest warrants, the facts did not support a conclusion that such a mistake rose to the level of &#8220;gross incompetence&#8221; or &#8220;neglect of duty&#8221; on the officer\u2019s part. Thus, he was entitled to qualified immunity on plaintiff&#8217;s \u00a7 1983 malicious-prosecution claim. <a href=\"http:\/\/media.ca11.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/unpub\/files\/201513694.pdf\">Taylor v. Taylor<\/a>, 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 7996 (11th Cir. May 3, 2016).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant was seen parked in front of a store slumped over the steering wheel. The community caretaking function permitted officers to open the door to check on him. The community caretaking function isn\u2019t limited to consensual encounters. State v. McCormick, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=22072\">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":[74,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-caretaking-function","category-probable-cause"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22072","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=22072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22073,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22072\/revisions\/22073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}