{"id":2887,"date":"2009-12-25T05:59:42","date_gmt":"2009-01-25T08:54:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-25T08:54:50","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=2887","title":{"rendered":"VA: Jail seizure of documents not used did not violate Fourth or Sixth Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant was stopped for a traffic offense and her license turned out to be suspended. Because she was subjected to a custodial arrest, a search incident of the car was appropriate. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sconet.state.oh.us\/rod\/docs\/pdf\/5\/2009\/2009-ohio-173.pdf\">State v. King<\/a>, 2009 Ohio 173, 2009 Ohio App. LEXIS 118 (5th Dist. January 16, 2009).*<\/p>\n<p>Odor of raw marijuana found during a traffic stop was probable cause. The search of the &#8220;cargo area&#8221; was proper because that was a place where it could be found. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sconet.state.oh.us\/rod\/docs\/pdf\/6\/2009\/2009-ohio-168.pdf\">State v. Gonzales<\/a>, 2009 Ohio 168, 2009 Ohio App. LEXIS 149 (6th Dist. January 16, 2009).*<\/p>\n<p>Odor of raw marijuana was found during a traffic stop, and the defendant&#8217;s conduct justified the officer searching for safety reasons as well. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sconet.state.oh.us\/rod\/docs\/pdf\/5\/2009\/2009-ohio-205.pdf\">State v. Haidet<\/a>, 2009 Ohio 205, 2009 Ohio App. LEXIS 181 (5th Dist. January 20, 2009).*<\/p>\n<p>Police repeating the CI&#8217;s statement that the defendant&#8217;s apartment had &#8220;1&#8221; on the door, but it turned out that it did not, was not a reckless false statement of the officer under <a href=\"http:\/\/caselaw.lp.findlaw.com\/scripts\/getcase.pl?court=us&amp;vol=438&amp;invol=154 \">Franks<\/a>. Apartment 1 was searched. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sconet.state.oh.us\/rod\/docs\/pdf\/1\/2009\/2009-ohio-241.pdf\">State v. Evans<\/a>, 2009 Ohio 241, 2009 Ohio App. LEXIS 221 (1st Dist. January 23, 2009).*<\/p>\n<p>Defendant&#8217;s arrest was unlawful, but his assaulting the officer during the illegal arrest was not suppressed. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.mo.gov\/file\/Opinion_ED91054.pdf\">State v. Cook<\/a>, 273 S.W.3d 562 (Mo. App. 2008).*<\/p>\n<p>Jail seizure of Romanian language documents from defendant&#8217;s jail cell did not violate Fourth or Sixth Amendments because the documents were not used in the case or to provide investigative leads.  It had no effect on the verdict. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.state.va.us\/opinions\/opncavwp\/0801074.pdf\">Gheorghiu v. Commonwealth<\/a>, 53 Va. App. 288, 671 S.E.2d 407 (2009), opinion withdrawn and replaced Gheorghiu v. Commonwealth, 54 Va. App. 645, 682 S.E.2d 50 (2009) (same result).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=2887\">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-2887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887","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=2887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}