{"id":24749,"date":"2016-12-11T00:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T05:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=24749"},"modified":"2016-12-10T18:13:08","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T23:13:08","slug":"co-stop-in-high-crime-area-false-name-and-large-knife-on-floor-justified-protective-weapons-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=24749","title":{"rendered":"CO: Stop in high crime area, false name, and large knife on floor justified protective weapons search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The protective weapons search of defendant\u2019s car was valid. The stop occurred in an area known for frequent criminal activity, defendant gave the officer a false name, and he observed a large knife on the front floorboard near defendant&#8217;s feet. The fact that the rear floorboard area was searched too wasn\u2019t unreasonable because it was within reach of the driver when stopped. Suppression order reversed. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.state.co.us\/userfiles\/file\/Court_Probation\/Supreme_Court\/Opinions\/2016\/16SA163.pdf\">People v. Delacruz<\/a>, 2016 CO 76, 2016 Colo. LEXIS 1230 (Dec. 5, 2016).<\/p>\n<p>Defendant\u2019s stop was reasonable for no headlights and not signaling. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov\/opinions.pdf\/16a0651n-06.pdf\">United States v. Lash<\/a>, 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 21789 (6th Cir. Dec. 6, 2016).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The protective weapons search of defendant\u2019s car was valid. The stop occurred in an area known for frequent criminal activity, defendant gave the officer a false name, and he observed a large knife on the front floorboard near defendant&#8217;s feet. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=24749\">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":[22,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-protective-sweep","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24749","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=24749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24750,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24749\/revisions\/24750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}