{"id":31869,"date":"2018-02-17T08:57:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T13:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=31869"},"modified":"2018-02-17T09:28:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T14:28:31","slug":"techdirt-appeals-court-handcuffing-a-compliant-ten-year-old-is-unreasonable-but-deputy-had-no-way-of-knowing-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=31869","title":{"rendered":"techdirt: Appeals Court: Handcuffing A Compliant Ten-Year-Old Is Unreasonable But Deputy Had No Way Of Knowing That"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>techdirt: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20180213\/14504739228\/appeals-court-handcuffing-compliant-ten-year-old-is-unreasonable-deputy-had-no-way-knowing-that.shtml\">Appeals Court: Handcuffing A Compliant Ten-Year-Old Is Unreasonable But Deputy Had No Way Of Knowing That<\/a> by Tim Cushing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Time and time again, courts remind officers of the law don&#8217;t actually have to know the law to enforce the law. Yes, that&#8217;s how it all works out for citizens, who are just as frequently reminded ignorance of the law is no excuse. This has led to the prevalence of pretextual stops where minor traffic violations (that may not even be violations) are used to initiate long conversations with law enforcement officers with the end goal of obtaining consent for a search or to bring a drug dog onto the scene. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=31777\">CA4: Handcuffing a compliant child at school violated 4A, but officer gets QI<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>techdirt: Appeals Court: Handcuffing A Compliant Ten-Year-Old Is Unreasonable But Deputy Had No Way Of Knowing That by Tim Cushing: Time and time again, courts remind officers of the law don&#8217;t actually have to know the law to enforce the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=31869\">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":[40,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qualified-immunity","category-reasonableness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31869","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=31869"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31876,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31869\/revisions\/31876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}