{"id":2258,"date":"2008-09-20T21:06:13","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T07:23:51","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T07:23:51","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=2258","title":{"rendered":"PA: Need to secure a vehicle for officer safety does not require that the officer actually see a gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The need to secure a vehicle for officer safety does not require that the officer actually see a gun. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aopc.org\/OpPosting\/Superior\/out\/a10008_08.pdf\">Commonwealth v. Mack<\/a>, 2008 PA Super 153, 953 A.2d 587 (2008).<\/p>\n<p>The trial court erred in failing to suppress the defendant&#8217;s admission, in response to a question posed by a police officer after he had been handcuffed, but before he had been read his <em>Miranda<\/em> rights, that the item the officer had felt in his buttocks was a bag of cocaine, but the error was harmless in light of the fact that the officer was entitled to conduct a search incident to defendant&#8217;s arrest.  State v. Lafawn, 2008 Ohio 3475, 2008 Ohio App. LEXIS 2930 (1st Dist. July 11, 2008).*<\/p>\n<p>Police had probable cause to search defendant&#8217;s car for evidence of a burglary, so defendant&#8217;s wallet found in the car was lawfully found. State v. Davis, 2008 Ohio 3453, 2008 Ohio App. LEXIS 2921 (June 5, 2008).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=2258\">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-2258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258","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=2258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}