{"id":45533,"date":"2020-09-25T10:42:49","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T15:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=45533"},"modified":"2020-09-25T11:01:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T16:01:30","slug":"ca6-because-defs-car-would-be-towed-and-inventory-anyway-officers-comments-at-time-not-determinative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=45533","title":{"rendered":"CA6: Because def&#8217;s car would be towed and inventoried anyway, officer&#8217;s comments at time of seizure not determinative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Because defendant\u2019s car would be towed and inventoried in any event after his stop, it didn\u2019t matter what the officer said at the time. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov\/opinions.pdf\/20a0310p-06.pdf\">United States v. Snoddy<\/a>, 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 30512 (6th Cir. Sept. 24, 2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhile Williams and Jerry insist that the district court should have accepted their version of events over Faulk&#8217;s, neither attempts to show that the district court&#8217;s credibility determinations \u2013 particularly with regard to whether the traffic infraction occurred \u2013 were based upon an impermissible view of the evidence. See id. Further, as Williams acknowledges, even if Faulk had reasons other than the witnessed infraction for making the stop, such reasons are irrelevant for Fourth Amendment purposes so long as the infraction took place.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca5.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/unpub\/19\/19-31043.0.pdf\">United States v. Williams<\/a>, 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 30500 (5th Cir. Sept. 24, 2020).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant\u2019s arrest was with probable cause, so his statements are not suppressed. <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.ca3.uscourts.gov\/opinarch\/193299np.pdf\">United States v. Jackson<\/a>, 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 30503 (3d Cir. Sept. 24, 2020).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because defendant\u2019s car would be towed and inventoried in any event after his stop, it didn\u2019t matter what the officer said at the time. United States v. Snoddy, 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 30512 (6th Cir. Sept. 24, 2020). \u201cWhile Williams &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=45533\">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":[50,39,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrest-or-entry-on-arrest","category-inventory","category-standards-of-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45533","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=45533"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45536,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45533\/revisions\/45536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}