{"id":41990,"date":"2020-01-25T09:21:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T14:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=41990"},"modified":"2020-01-25T09:21:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T14:21:05","slug":"oh5-officers-entry-into-garage-following-erratic-driver-was-justified-as-a-welfare-check-on-condition-of-driver-even-though-she-was-helped-into-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=41990","title":{"rendered":"OH5: Officer&#8217;s entry into garage following erratic driver was justified as a welfare check on condition of driver, even though she was helped into the house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The officer\u2019s entry into defendant\u2019s garage after the car was parked askew and the door left open justified a welfare check at the door of the house. The officer responded to a 911 call about an erratic driver, and he saw defendant helped into the house. \u201cHere, when viewed objectively, certainly there was a reasonable basis for Officer Wright to believe Street could be in need of assistance, and that a welfare check was prudent. Based on Gregorich&#8217;s report, Street&#8217;s driving was profoundly impaired. Street could have been intoxicated, or she could have been in need of medical assistance. We find Wright&#8217;s entry into the Street&#8217;s attached garage to check for occupants in the Honda Accord, did not violate Street&#8217;s Fourth Amendment protections.\u201d State v. Street, 2020-Ohio-173, 2020 Ohio App. LEXIS 142 (5th Dist. Jan. 21, 2020).<\/p>\n<p>Defendant\u2019s 2255 Fourth Amendment claim that his phone records were obtained without a warrant is rejected because they clearly were with a warrant.  Clark v. United States, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 10157 (N.D.Ga. Jan. 22, 2020).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The officer\u2019s entry into defendant\u2019s garage after the car was parked askew and the door left open justified a welfare check at the door of the house. The officer responded to a 911 call about an erratic driver, and he &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=41990\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-caretaking-function"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41990","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=41990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41991,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41990\/revisions\/41991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}