{"id":43044,"date":"2020-03-20T17:40:02","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T22:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=43044"},"modified":"2020-03-21T07:12:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T12:12:08","slug":"pa-syringes-in-plain-view-on-floorboard-was-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=43044","title":{"rendered":"PA: Syringes in plain view on floorboard was PC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Officer\u2019s seeing syringes on the floor of defendant\u2019s car just by looking was plain view and probable cause for search. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-S60015-19o%20-%2010437357398276589.pdf?cb=1\">Commonwealth v. Bumbarger<\/a>, 2020 Pa. Super. LEXIS 206 (Mar. 16, 2020).*<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMr. Sealey&#8217;s motion to suppress, the court did not expressly determine that the stop was prolonged, but did find that the officer had reasonable, articulable suspicion that the vehicle contained drugs. We agree.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourt.ohio.gov\/rod\/docs\/pdf\/11\/2020\/2020-Ohio-987.pdf\">State v. Sealey<\/a>, 2020-Ohio-987, 2020 Ohio App. LEXIS 913 (11th Dist. Mar. 16, 2020).*<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The stop of the defendant\u2019s car was reasonable for driving too slow too long in the left lane such that other cars were passing on the right. Once stopped, defendant\u2019s story and his girlfriend\u2019s didn\u2019t match [enough; because she didn\u2019t know the name of his friend they were visiting?]. There was reasonable suspicion to extend the stop for a drug dog. United States v. Gomez, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 44670 (M.D. La. Mar. 13, 2020).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officer\u2019s seeing syringes on the floor of defendant\u2019s car just by looking was plain view and probable cause for search. Commonwealth v. Bumbarger, 2020 Pa. Super. LEXIS 206 (Mar. 16, 2020).* \u201cMr. Sealey&#8217;s motion to suppress, the court did not &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=43044\">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":[36,51,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile-exception","category-plain-view","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43044","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=43044"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43051,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43044\/revisions\/43051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}