{"id":47196,"date":"2021-02-08T08:30:07","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T13:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=47196"},"modified":"2021-02-08T08:30:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T13:30:20","slug":"al-a-visitor-to-premises-targeted-by-a-sw-who-is-more-than-a-transient-visitor-is-subject-to-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=47196","title":{"rendered":"AL: A visitor to premises targeted by a SW who is more than a “transient visitor” is subject to search"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Defendant was a visitor at a house that was searched under a warrant for drugs. Her purse was searched, too. \u201cBecause Powers was more than a \u2018transient visitor\u2019 at Moyers’s house and had a known relationship to the premises, and because Powers’s purse was a container that could conceivably conceal the “illegal drugs” that law-enforcement officers were looking for in Moyers’s house, Powers’s Fourth Amendment rights were not violated when the officers searched her purse. Thus, the trial court did not err when it denied Powers’s motion to suppress.\u201d (among conflicting authorities). Powers v. State<\/a>, 2021 Ala. Crim. App. LEXIS 9 (Feb. 5, 2021).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The stop of defendant\u2019s vehicle was justified by a traffic violation. The officer approaching the car saw in plain view a digital scale in the cupholder. This was reasonable suspicion. United States v. McIntyre, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 22712 (W.D. La. Jan. 20, 2021).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Defendant was a visitor at a house that was searched under a warrant for drugs. Her purse was searched, too. \u201cBecause Powers was more than a \u2018transient visitor\u2019 at Moyers’s house and had a known relationship to the premises, and … Continue reading →<\/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":[101,51,35,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-overseizure","category-plain-view","category-reasonable-suspicion","category-warrant-execution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47196","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=47196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47198,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47196\/revisions\/47198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}