{"id":4483,"date":"2012-02-16T13:02:57","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T08:07:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T08:07:38","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=4483","title":{"rendered":"CA6: Grabbing defendant&#8217;s arm as he reached in pocket was reasonable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grabbing defendant\u2019s arm when he reached into his pocket after having gotten out of his car at the officer\u2019s direction was reasonable. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca6.uscourts.gov\/opinions.pdf\/10a0216p-06.pdf\">United States v. Street<\/a>, 614 F.3d 228, 2010 FED App. 0216P (6th Cir. 2010).*<\/p>\n<p>Defendant\u2019s stop was objectively reasonable for a partially obscured license plate, and the officer\u2019s other reasons for the stop were not pertinent. The officer had objective probable cause to arrest defendant for car theft. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca11.uscourts.gov\/unpub\/ops\/200913423.pdf\">United States v. Boyd<\/a>, 388 Fed. Appx. 943 (11th Cir. 2010) (unpublished).*<\/p>\n<p>Defendant failed to stop at a weigh station, so his stop was valid. After the officer looked at his paperwork and issued a ticket for the failure to stop  and warnings for other infractions, he told defendant he could go. Then he asked for consent and got it. The court finds the officers more credible on the question of consent. United States v. Narcisse, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 75359 (M.D. Pa. July 26, 2010).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=4483\">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-4483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4483","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=4483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}