{"id":28960,"date":"2017-09-08T17:50:40","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T22:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=28960"},"modified":"2017-09-16T17:52:05","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T22:52:05","slug":"wv-lawful-traffic-stop-led-to-reasonable-seizure-of-vehicle-registration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=28960","title":{"rendered":"WV: Lawful traffic stop led to reasonable seizure of vehicle registration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The stop made for a traffic offense lawfully led to the seizure of defendant\u2019s vehicle registration. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courtswv.gov\/supreme-court\/memo-decisions\/fall2017\/16-0655memo.pdf\">State v. Corbin<\/a>, 2017 W. Va. LEXIS 651 (Sept. 5, 2017)* (memorandum).<\/p>\n<p>The parties base the motion to suppress solely on the police reports, and it&#8217;s denied. &#8220;But Cuevas&#8217;s focus on duration-of-the-stop cases is misguided. Cuevas has not challenged the duration of the stop prior to Trooper Russell seeking consent and, in any event, that period was reasonable. Trooper Russell&#8217;s discussion with Cuevas, up to this point, was not unduly prolonged and Trooper Russell requested permission to search the car before he had even checked Cuevas&#8217;s license and registration, clearly a task essential to the issuance of a warning or ticket.&#8221; United States v. Cuevas, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 131411 (D. Mass. Aug. 17, 2017).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stop made for a traffic offense lawfully led to the seizure of defendant\u2019s vehicle registration. State v. Corbin, 2017 W. Va. LEXIS 651 (Sept. 5, 2017)* (memorandum). The parties base the motion to suppress solely on the police reports, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=28960\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28960","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=28960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28961,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28960\/revisions\/28961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}