{"id":4826,"date":"2011-12-17T13:14:37","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T07:35:17","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T07:35:17","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=4826","title":{"rendered":"OH6: Defendant&#8217;s apparent obvious mental disturbance was exigent circumstance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The police had exigent circumstances based on \u201cinformation from appellant\u2019s mother by which they could have reasonably inferred that appellant was agitated and possibly mentally disturbed. Certainly, appellant\u2019s behavior in running from the car into the corn field, would have supported that inference.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sconet.state.oh.us\/rod\/docs\/pdf\/6\/2010\/2010-ohio-5167.pdf\">State v. Sheffer<\/a>, 2010 Ohio 5167, 2010 Ohio App. LEXIS 4353 (6th Dist.  October 22, 2010), companion case at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sconet.state.oh.us\/rod\/docs\/pdf\/6\/2010\/2010-ohio-5165.pdf\">State v. Sheffer<\/a>, 2010 Ohio 5165, 2010 Ohio App. LEXIS 4349 (6th Dist. October 22, 2010).*<\/p>\n<p>Probable cause was shown by a link between defendant\u2019s screen name and an IP address traced to defendant\u2019s address, and \u201cit was reasonable to infer that he had child pornography on the computer because he asked \u2018Centralpamaster\u2019 for photographs to view while masturbating.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jud.state.ct.us\/external\/supapp\/Cases\/AROap\/AP124\/124AP529.pdf\">State v. Shields<\/a>, 124 Conn. App. 584, 5 A.3d 984 (2010).*<\/p>\n<p>Officer\u2019s mistake in stopping defendant with a special plate issued by the state without legal authority was a reasonable mistake of fact and not a mistake of law, so the stop was not invalid. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isc.idaho.gov\/opinions\/Horton%2036435.pdf\">State v. Horton<\/a>, 150 Idaho 300, 246 P.3d 673 (App. 2010).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=4826\">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-4826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826","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=4826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}