{"id":2847,"date":"2009-12-23T07:25:18","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T07:53:54","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T07:53:54","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=2847","title":{"rendered":"N.D.Iowa: Recent drug transactions justified stop and felony arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Knowledge that the passenger in a vehicle that was stopped had just been involved in a drug transaction was justification for a pat down. United States v. Hardy, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 70 (N.D. Iowa January 5, 2009), relying on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca8.uscourts.gov\/opndir\/08\/12\/072860P.pdf\">United States v. Oliver<\/a>, 2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 26394, 2008 WL 5333835 (8th Cir. December 23, 2008).*<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, a felony stop at gunpoint is justified by knowledge of a just occurring hand-to-hand drug transaction. United States v. Brewer, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 71 (N.D. Iowa January 5, 2009).*<\/p>\n<p>The question was probable cause for arrest, and it isn&#8217;t the level of proof required for conviction [not that appellant actually argued that].  Here, the police sufficiently corroborated the CI to justify the stop. Pullan v. State, 104 Ark. App. 78, 289 S.W.3d 180 (2008).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=2847\">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-2847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847","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=2847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}