{"id":3255,"date":"2010-01-16T06:38:18","date_gmt":"2009-07-18T08:41:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-18T08:41:28","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=3255","title":{"rendered":"M.D.Ala.: Vehicle search was permitted as inventory, and <em>Gant<\/em> was inapplicable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The search of defendant&#8217;s car was valid as an inventory search, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourtus.gov\/opinions\/08pdf\/07-542.pdf\">Gant<\/a> had no application. United States v. Melton, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 60253 (M.D. Ala. July 15, 2009).*<\/p>\n<p>The officer here had RS to call for a drug dog during defendant&#8217;s stop. The officer did not even know about pending charges against the defendant, and the defendant volunteered that he had charges pending and he was going to Chicago to &#8220;stay with his people&#8221; before appearing in court in Missouri. He had two GPS devices, one installed [could not that one&#8217;s programming have expired and it would cost $2000 to update?], which the officer found curious. United States v. Stanley, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 59807 (D. Neb. July 13, 2009).*<\/p>\n<p>Officer sitting in his car at a convenience store saw defendant get out of his car and walk toward to the door. He could see a bulge in defendant&#8217;s waistband that was likely a gun. He approached the defendant and asked about the gun. The fact he approached the defendant with his hand on his own gun did not make the encounter a stop. It led to a frisk. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca11.uscourts.gov\/unpub\/ops\/200817032.pdf\">United States v. Morgan<\/a>, 337 Fed. Appx. 798 (11th Cir. 2009) (unpublished).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=3255\">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-3255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255","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=3255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}