{"id":50931,"date":"2021-12-28T09:29:06","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T14:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=50931"},"modified":"2021-12-28T09:29:06","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T14:29:06","slug":"oh11-plain-view-during-fd-response-to-fire-leading-to-call-to-police-was-reasonable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=50931","title":{"rendered":"OH11: Plain view during FD response to fire leading to call to police was reasonable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Defendant\u2019s house burned in a fire, and the fire investigator came in before the firemen left. Drugs were found in plain view and in a safe with an open door. The trial court suppressed, but the court of appeals reversed. A plain view of drugs has been held in many other cases to be reasonable, as is this. The police can be called to investigate during the immediate fire investigation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.ohio.gov\/rod\/docs\/pdf\/11\/2021\/2021-Ohio-4568.pdf\">State v. Hommes<\/a>, 2021-Ohio-4568, 2021 Ohio App. LEXIS 4474 (11th Dist. Dec. 27, 2021).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reasonable suspicion is all that is required for a PBT. <a href=\"https:\/\/mn.gov\/law-library-stat\/archive\/ctappub\/2021\/OPa210578-122721.pdf\">Mesenburg v. Comm&#8217;r of Pub. Safety<\/a>, 2021 Minn. App. LEXIS 309 (Dec. 27, 2021).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plaintiff\u2019s claim that he was convicted on false testimony is Heck barred. Moreover, witnesses are immune from civil liability. McGhee v. Acosta, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 245437 (C.D.Cal. Dec. 1, 2021).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant\u2019s house burned in a fire, and the fire investigator came in before the firemen left. Drugs were found in plain view and in a safe with an open door. The trial court suppressed, but the court of appeals reversed. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=50931\">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":[55,126,51,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drug-testing","category-issue-preclusion","category-plain-view","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50931","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=50931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50932,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50931\/revisions\/50932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}