{"id":4322,"date":"2012-02-26T07:45:15","date_gmt":"2010-06-20T00:20:54","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-19T11:44:19","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=4322","title":{"rendered":"NC: Digital scale could be seized under plain feel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plain feel of a digital scale during a patdown was reasonable under <a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=7218526854673273191&amp;q=Dickerson&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=1002\">Dickerson<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aoc.state.nc.us\/www\/public\/coa\/opinions\/2010\/pdf\/081020-2.pdf\">State v. Morton<\/a>, 204 N.C. App. 578, 694 S.E.2d 432 (2010).<\/p>\n<p>Looking in on a stopped pickup truck in a parking lot at 2 a.m. with a driver slumped over the wheel was reasonable under the community caretaking function. The driver was DUI. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndcourts.com\/court\/opinions\/20090274.htm\">City of Mandan v. Gerhardt<\/a>, 2010 ND 112, 783 N.W.2d 818 (2010).* For the learning impaired courts:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[*P7]  A person alleging a violation of Fourth Amendment rights has the initial burden of establishing a prima facie case of illegal seizure. City of Jamestown v. Jerome, 2002 ND 34, P 6, 639 N.W.2d 478 (citing City of Fargo v. Sivertson, 1997 ND 204, P 6, 571 N.W.2d 137). &#8220;After the person alleging a Fourth Amendment violation has made a prima facie case, the burden of persuasion is shifted to the State to justify its actions.&#8221; Id.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=4322\">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-4322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4322","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=4322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}