{"id":39609,"date":"2019-09-10T07:26:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T12:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=39609"},"modified":"2019-09-10T08:10:49","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T13:10:49","slug":"md-traffic-enforcement-saturation-for-seat-belt-stops-wasnt-a-checkpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=39609","title":{"rendered":"MD: Traffic enforcement saturation for seat belt stops wasn&#8217;t a checkpoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A traffic enforcement saturation to stop people only without seat belts on was founded on reasonable suspicion and wasn\u2019t a checkpoint. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.state.md.us\/data\/opinions\/cosa\/2019\/1386s17.pdf\">Johnson v. State<\/a>, 2019 Md. App. LEXIS 783 (Sept. 9, 2019).*<\/p>\n<p>Defendant was stopped for a traffic offense, and he had no insurance and warrants came up. After issuing the citation, the officer said he smelled marijuana, and defendant refused to consent to a search and the officer said he didn\u2019t need it. The stop was valid, as was everything that happened thereafter. State v. Cole<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsc.state.tn.us\/sites\/default\/files\/cole_brewston_opn.pdf\">State v. Cole<\/a>State v. Cole, 2019 Tenn. Crim. App. LEXIS 556 (Sept. 9, 2019).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A traffic enforcement saturation to stop people only without seat belts on was founded on reasonable suspicion and wasn\u2019t a checkpoint. Johnson v. State, 2019 Md. App. LEXIS 783 (Sept. 9, 2019).* Defendant was stopped for a traffic offense, and &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=39609\">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":[20,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-probable-cause","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39609","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=39609"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39611,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39609\/revisions\/39611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}