{"id":28477,"date":"2017-08-06T09:26:13","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T14:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=28477"},"modified":"2017-08-06T09:26:13","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T14:26:13","slug":"ia-officers-checking-on-car-parked-on-rural-road-at-1-am-was-valid-welfare-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=28477","title":{"rendered":"IA: Officer&#8217;s checking on car parked on rural road at 1 am was valid welfare check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The officer stopped to check on the welfare of defendant parked on the side of a rural road at 1 am. This was a bona fide welfare check and not a criminal investigation, and it was reasonable. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iowacourts.gov\/About_the_Courts\/Court_of_Appeals\/Court_of_Appeals_Opinions\/Recent_Opinions\/20170802\/16-1720.pdf\">State v. Coffman<\/a>, 2017 Iowa App. LEXIS 795 (Aug. 2, 2017).<\/p>\n<p>Suppression of blood test results is reversed for lack of factual findings. Remanded to determine the voluntariness of consent on the totality. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-A15010-17o%20-%2010319442321916731.pdf?cb=1\">Commonwealth v. Haines<\/a>, 2017 PA Super 252, 2017 Pa. Super. LEXIS 585 (Aug. 2, 2017).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The officer stopped to check on the welfare of defendant parked on the side of a rural road at 1 am. This was a bona fide welfare check and not a criminal investigation, and it was reasonable. State v. Coffman, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=28477\">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":[74,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-caretaking-function","category-standards-of-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28477","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=28477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28478,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28477\/revisions\/28478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}