{"id":30187,"date":"2017-11-16T09:12:39","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T14:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=30187"},"modified":"2017-11-16T09:12:39","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T14:12:39","slug":"la-search-incident-can-occur-before-formal-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=30187","title":{"rendered":"LA: Search incident can occur before formal arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The trial court denied the motion to suppress and the court of appeals reversed. When defendant\u2019s name came back as having a warrant, the fact the search occurred before the formal arrest doesn\u2019t matter. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasc.org\/opinions\/2017\/17-1258.KK.pc.pdf\">State v. Owens<\/a>, 2017 La. LEXIS 2617 (Nov. 13, 2017) (per curiam):<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is no question the traffic stop here was lawful. While conducting the traffic stop, the officer discovered an outstanding warrant. The officer&#8217;s decision to run the warrant check was a &#8220;negligibly burdensome precautio[n]&#8221; for officer safety. Rodriguez &#8230;. Furthermore, &#8220;[a] warrant is a judicial mandate to an officer to conduct a search or make an arrest, and the officer has a sworn duty to carry out its provisions.&#8221; United States v. Leon, &#8230;. Once the officer was authorized to arrest defendant, it was undisputedly lawful to search her as an incident of the arrest. See Arizona v. Gant, &#8230; Furthermore, where the formal arrest followed quickly on the heels of the challenged search, it is &#8220;not &#8230; particularly important that the search preceded the arrest rather than vice versa.&#8221; Rawlings v. Kentucky, &#8230;. Therefore, we reverse the court of appeal, reinstate the trial court&#8217;s ruling denying defendant&#8217;s motion to suppress, and remand to the trial court for further proceedings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trial court denied the motion to suppress and the court of appeals reversed. When defendant\u2019s name came back as having a warrant, the fact the search occurred before the formal arrest doesn\u2019t matter. State v. Owens, 2017 La. LEXIS &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=30187\">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":[50,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrest-or-entry-on-arrest","category-search-incident"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30187","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=30187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30188,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30187\/revisions\/30188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}