{"id":24954,"date":"2016-12-24T00:04:20","date_gmt":"2016-12-24T05:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=24954"},"modified":"2016-12-24T12:05:05","modified_gmt":"2016-12-24T17:05:05","slug":"nc-surrounding-house-for-a-knock-and-talk-didnt-make-the-knock-and-talk-unreasonable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=24954","title":{"rendered":"NC: Surrounding house for a knock-and-talk didn&#8217;t make the knock-and-talk unreasonable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant had a running generator connected to his house and mold and condensation on the windows. A CI had said that defendant had a grow operation. Officers came to the house and confirmed the generator and windows from the front. They surrounded the house before the knock-and-talk, which was unusual, but not unreasonable or unconstitutional. They quickly and lawfully obtained enough to get a search warrant. <a href=\"https:\/\/appellate.nccourts.org\/opinions\/?c=2&#038;pdf=34728\">State v. Kirkman<\/a>, 2016 N.C. App. LEXIS 1321 (Dec. 20, 2016) [even though surrounding the house by definition is an invasion of the curtilage beyond the mere license to approach the front door?].<\/p>\n<p>Defendant\u2019s prior drug activity, a pending case, and a CI\u2019s statement he\u2019d transported drugs from Chicago to Waterloo was reasonable suspicion to continue the stop longer under Rodriguez. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iowacourts.gov\/About_the_Courts\/Court_of_Appeals\/Court_of_Appeals_Opinions\/Recent_Opinions\/20161221\/15-0708.pdf\">State v. Allen<\/a>, 2016 Iowa App. LEXIS 1387 (Dec. 21, 2016).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant had a running generator connected to his house and mold and condensation on the windows. A CI had said that defendant had a grow operation. Officers came to the house and confirmed the generator and windows from the front. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=24954\">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":[54,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knock-and-talk","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24954","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=24954"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24999,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24954\/revisions\/24999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}