{"id":40960,"date":"2019-12-02T00:01:32","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T05:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=40960"},"modified":"2019-12-01T06:36:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T11:36:58","slug":"ca5-heien-objective-reasonableness-applies-to-a-stop-for-driving-too-slow-even-though-it-was-just-defs-car-in-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=40960","title":{"rendered":"CA5: <em>Heien<\/em> objective reasonableness applies to a stop for driving too slow even though it was just def&#8217;s car in traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Driving too slow for too long justifies a stop, at least Heien makes it reasonable: \u201cGiven the dearth of authority on whether a single vehicle constitutes traffic &#8230;, the ambiguity in the statute, and the danger observed by the officer, the officer could have reasonably believed that he witnessed a violation of Section 545.363(a), see Heien v. North Carolina, 574 U.S. 54, 57, 65-66 &#8230; [\u00b6] Accordingly, Reynero-Serna fails to show that the district court clearly or obviously erred in denying suppression.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca5.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/unpub\/19\/19-40094.0.pdf\">United States v. Reynero-Serna<\/a>, 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 35683 (5th Cir. Nov. 27, 2019).*<\/p>\n<p>Defendant argues his stop required probable cause, but it only required reasonable suspicion, which the officer had. After the stop occurred, it ripened into probable cause justifying a search of the vehicle for a weapon allegedly used to fire at people. United States v. Hernandez-Davalos, 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 206551 (D. Idaho Nov. 26, 2019).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driving too slow for too long justifies a stop, at least Heien makes it reasonable: \u201cGiven the dearth of authority on whether a single vehicle constitutes traffic &#8230;, the ambiguity in the statute, and the danger observed by the officer, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=40960\">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":[35,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reasonable-suspicion","category-reasonableness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40960","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=40960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40961,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40960\/revisions\/40961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}