{"id":4103,"date":"2011-01-11T11:35:17","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T09:40:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-25T09:40:05","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=4103","title":{"rendered":"CA5: Tossing baggie of drugs from a stopped car justified search incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Traffic stop led to defendant throwing baggie of drugs out of the car, and another officer who shortly arrived found it. That justified a search incident. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca5.uscourts.gov\/opinions%5Cunpub%5C09\/09-30093.0.wpd.pdf\">United States v. Singleton<\/a>, 373 Fed. Appx. 532 (5th Cir. 2010) (unpublished).<\/p>\n<p>The officer had reasonable suspicion for the detention. \u201cA recognized exception to this rule is that if additional reasonable suspicion arises in the course of the stop and before the initial purpose of the stop has been fulfilled, then the detention may continue until the new reasonable suspicion has been dispelled or confirmed. &#8230; However, mere \u2018uneasy feelings\u2019 and inconsistent stories between a driver and passenger do not constitute articulable facts that support a reasonable suspicion of drug trafficking.\u201d United States v. Lee, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 39703 (W.D. La. March 9, 2010).*<\/p>\n<p>Defendant was targeted by a Nevada Interdiction Task Force that was waiting for him on I-15 south of Las Vegas. He was clocked at 73 in either a 65 or 70 zone (it didn\u2019t matter), and he was dressed inappropriately for the weather and he was sweating profusely and nervous. There was reasonable suspicion, and he consented to the search. United States v. Comstock, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 39666 (D. Nev. January 21, 2010).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=4103\">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-4103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4103","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=4103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}