{"id":2661,"date":"2009-07-31T01:34:44","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T04:58:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T05:20:20","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=2661","title":{"rendered":"CA11: Winning state search claim in criminal case did not guarantee \u00a7 1983 case; officer had qualified immunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fact that the state supreme court reversed and suppressed plaintiff&#8217;s conviction did not mean that he would prevail on his claim. At the time of the search the law was not clear, and the officer was entitled to qualified immunity. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca11.uscourts.gov\/unpub\/ops\/200812696.pdf\">Battle v. Webb<\/a>, 298 Fed. Appx. 882 (11th Cir. 2008) (unpublished).<\/p>\n<p>Officer&#8217;s smelling marijuana and seeing defendant concealing something (that turned out to be a handgun) justified a search of the car. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca11.uscourts.gov\/unpub\/ops\/200810792.pdf\">United States v. Hamilton<\/a>, 299 Fed. Appx. 878 (11th Cir. 2008) (unpublished).*<\/p>\n<p>Loud car stereo justified stop under city ordinance, and a dog sniff during the incidents of writing a ticket was permissible. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca6.uscourts.gov\/opinions.pdf\/08a0665n-06.pdf\">Pillow v. City of Lawrenceburg<\/a>, 319 Fed. Appx. 347 (6th Cir. 2008) (unpublished).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=2661\">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-2661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661","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=2661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}