{"id":42808,"date":"2020-03-05T10:13:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T15:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=42808"},"modified":"2020-03-05T10:13:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T15:13:29","slug":"co-off-topic-question-about-pill-bottle-felt-during-patdown-didnt-unreasonably-extend-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=42808","title":{"rendered":"CO: Off-topic question about pill bottle felt during patdown didn&#8217;t unreasonably extend stop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Defendant was stopped for reasonable suspicion of having communicated a threat to his girlfriend. During the patdown of the defendant, the officer felt a pill bottle and asked about it, and defendant gave an incriminating response. The single off-topic question didn\u2019t unreasonably extend the stop. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.state.co.us\/userfiles\/file\/Court_Probation\/Supreme_Court\/Opinions\/2019\/19SA226.pdf\">People v. Ashford<\/a>, 2020 CO 16,  2020 Colo. LEXIS 187 (Mar. 2, 2020).<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This stop occurred because of a random LPN check showing the driver\u2019s DL suspended. There was no erratic driving. From the car he could smell alcohol and a passenger was passed out. They were five blocks from the bar they left. The driver wasn\u2019t slurring her words. Getting her out, she walked fine, but she smelled of alcohol. A field sobriety test was based on reasonable suspicion. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourt.ohio.gov\/rod\/docs\/pdf\/9\/2020\/2020-Ohio-713.pdf\">State v. A.C.,<\/a> 2020-Ohio-713, 2020 Ohio App. LEXIS 662 (9th Dist. Mar. 2, 2020).*<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant was stopped for reasonable suspicion of having communicated a threat to his girlfriend. During the patdown of the defendant, the officer felt a pill bottle and asked about it, and defendant gave an incriminating response. The single off-topic question &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=42808\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42808","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=42808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42809,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42808\/revisions\/42809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}