{"id":33571,"date":"2018-06-25T00:12:14","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T05:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=33571"},"modified":"2018-06-25T10:01:38","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T15:01:38","slug":"ia-stopping-behind-a-car-parked-with-brake-lights-on-on-a-country-road-a-1-am-was-reasonable-under-the-community-caretaking-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=33571","title":{"rendered":"IA: Stopping behind a car parked with brake lights on on a country road at 1 am was reasonable under the community caretaking function"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis case requires us to decide whether an officer was justified in pulling behind a vehicle and activating his emergency lights when the vehicle was stopped by the side of a highway after 1:00 a.m. with its brake lights engaged. We conclude the officer&#8217;s actions were justified under the \u2018community caretaking function\u2019 exception to the warrant requirement of the Fourth Amendment and article I, section 8 of the Iowa Constitution. For this reason, we affirm the conviction for operating while intoxicated that resulted from this roadside encounter.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iowacourts.gov\/courtcases\/469\/embed\/SupremeCourtOpinion\">State v. Coffman<\/a>, 2018 Iowa Sup. LEXIS 72 (June 22, 2018) <\/p>\n<p>Defendant was suspected of being a large scale heroin and cocaine dealer in the Chicago area. A CI\u2019s tip had him coming in with $400,000 in proceeds. They tailed him and he was driving 70-75 in a 70 zone. At a construction zone he continued at 72 in a 55 zone, and he was stopped in Indiana. There was probable cause for the stop. He consented to a search and he thought the money was well hidden but it was found. The stop and search were valid. <a href=\"http:\/\/media.ca7.uscourts.gov\/cgi-bin\/rssExec.pl?Submit=Display&#038;Path=Y2018\/D06-20\/C:17-2898:J:Kanne:aut:T:fnOp:N:2173776:S:0\">United States v. Norton<\/a>, 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 16671 (7th Cir. June 20, 2018).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis case requires us to decide whether an officer was justified in pulling behind a vehicle and activating his emergency lights when the vehicle was stopped by the side of a highway after 1:00 a.m. with its brake lights engaged. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=33571\">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":[74,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-caretaking-function","category-probable-cause"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33571","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=33571"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33573,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33571\/revisions\/33573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}