{"id":3273,"date":"2010-03-23T08:56:57","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T10:27:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-26T10:27:03","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=3273","title":{"rendered":"CA4: Plain feel of cocaine while looking for gun supported search and seizure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officer had reasonable suspicion to feel a bag for a weapon, and it was apparent by plain feel (<a href=\"http:\/\/caselaw.lp.findlaw.com\/scripts\/getcase.pl?court=us&amp;vol=508&amp;invol=366\">Dickerson<\/a>) that the package contained drugs, likely cocaine. <a href=\"http:\/\/pacer.ca4.uscourts.gov\/opinion.pdf\/084228.U.pdf\">United States v. Works<\/a>, 338 Fed. Appx. 295 (4th Cir. 2009) (unpublished).*<\/p>\n<p>During a regulatory stop of a truck, the officers had  reasonable suspicion from \u201cerratic logbooks and destinations, suspicious behavior in the form of nervousness, etc.\u201d  USMJ R&amp;R adopted. United States v. Rosario, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 62620 (W.D. Mo. July 21, 2009).*<\/p>\n<p>Court finds that traffic stop become a voluntary detention and the consent was valid.  United States v. Flores, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 62434 (M.D. Ala. July 20, 2009).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=3273\">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-3273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273","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=3273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}