{"id":46417,"date":"2020-12-13T12:07:20","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T17:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=46417"},"modified":"2020-12-13T12:07:20","modified_gmt":"2020-12-13T17:07:20","slug":"m-d-pa-traffic-stop-may-be-highly-technical-but-it-still-has-a-factual-and-legal-basis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=46417","title":{"rendered":"M.D.Pa.: Traffic stop may be highly technical, but it still has a factual and legal basis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cAlthough many reasonable people may agree that the stop at issue here was a highly technical, \u2018ticky-tacky\u2019 sort of traffic stop, there is no doubt that Florida law requires a driver to stop at a clearly marked stop line before entering a crosswalk or intersection.\u201d United States v. Brown, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 231148 (M.D. Pa. Dec. 9, 2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The search warrant here was, in fact, based on an independent source and not a preliminary entry. The warrant would have issued anyway. The R&amp;R is adopted. United States v. Whipple, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 230871 (E.D. Tenn. Dec. 9, 2020).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn the Eighth Circuit, the smell of marijuana constitutes probable cause for an officer to search a vehicle for drugs.\u201d Defense counsel not challenging uncontested facts wasn\u2019t IAC. United States v. Phillips, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 230866 (D. Neb. Dec. 9, 2020).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAlthough many reasonable people may agree that the stop at issue here was a highly technical, \u2018ticky-tacky\u2019 sort of traffic stop, there is no doubt that Florida law requires a driver to stop at a clearly marked stop line before &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=46417\">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":[60,51,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-independent-source","category-plain-view","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46417","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=46417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46418,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46417\/revisions\/46418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}