{"id":31193,"date":"2018-01-05T14:18:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T19:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=31193"},"modified":"2018-01-05T14:18:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T19:18:34","slug":"salt-lake-tribune-trooper-who-thought-mans-mormon-music-was-suspicious-and-searched-his-car-violated-fourth-amendment-judge-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=31193","title":{"rendered":"Salt Lake Tribune: Trooper who thought man\u2019s Mormon music was suspicious and searched his car violated Fourth Amendment, judge says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Salt Lake Tribune: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/news\/2018\/01\/05\/trooper-who-thought-mans-mormon-music-was-suspicious-and-searched-his-car-violated-fourth-amendment-judge-says\/\">Trooper who thought man\u2019s Mormon music was suspicious and searched his car violated Fourth Amendment, judge says<\/a> by Aubrey Wieber:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A federal judge threw out evidence of methamphetamine seized during a traffic stop on Interstate 15 because the trooper found suspicious \u2014 among other things \u2014 the driver\u2019s playing of Mormon music.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>When Peeples approached the car, he noticed that the driver had rolled down the front windows and was playing Mormon music from a local radio station. He smelled the pungent scent of an air freshener and noticed the driver\u2019s lip quiver as he spoke. Upon obtaining the driver\u2019s vehicle information, the trooper noticed it was a rental car.<br \/>\nThe playing of the music, Peeples believed, \u201ccould indicate that [the driver] was overcompensating by attempting to affiliate with the local religious community,\u201d the judge\u2019s ruling states.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salt Lake Tribune: Trooper who thought man\u2019s Mormon music was suspicious and searched his car violated Fourth Amendment, judge says by Aubrey Wieber:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dog-sniff","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31193","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=31193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31194,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31193\/revisions\/31194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}