{"id":2241,"date":"2008-07-09T07:55:29","date_gmt":"2008-07-09T07:22:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-09T07:22:40","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=2241","title":{"rendered":"Actual seizure doesn&#8217;t justify PC after the fact, but it informs credibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Although the evidence or contraband seized during a search cannot justify, <em>ex post facto<\/em>, the legality of the search, see <em>State v. Sierra<\/em>, 754 P.2d 972, 977 (Utah App. 1988), it does inform the question of credibility. The items found incident to the search support Officer Bairett&#8217;s testimony that he smelled the odor of raw marijuana emanating from the vehicle. Based on Officer Bairett&#8217;s testimony and the corroborating evidence, the Court finds that Officer Bairett had probable cause to search Defendants&#8217; vehicle.&#8221; [The problem is that this is subject to post hoc rationalization.]  United States v. Ellis, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 51529 (D. Utah July 3, 2008).*<\/p>\n<p>Seatbelt violation justified a stop that revealed an extended clip extending from the butt of a gun in plain view.  Defendant&#8217;s conduct was also furtive where the gun was seen. United States v. Lewis, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 51291 (D. V.I. July 2, 2008).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=2241\">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-2241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241","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=2241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}