{"id":5238,"date":"2011-07-10T08:18:42","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T23:20:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T06:21:41","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5238","title":{"rendered":"WA: Misdemeanor arrest was in presence of officer even though he did not make the arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant\u2019s arrest by an officer other than the one who saw the misdemeanor violation was valid because the first officer who saw it was still present. Thus, the search incident to the arrest was valid. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.wa.gov\/opinions\/pdf\/64008-9.pub.doc.pdf\">State v. Ortega<\/a>, 159 Wn. App. 889, 248 P.3d 1062 (2011).*<\/p>\n<p>The officer encountered defendant while looking for a wandering black bear, and saw marijuana in plain view. After arresting him, a further search of the car was not justified without a warrant under the Washington Constitution. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.wa.gov\/opinions\/pdf\/39617-3.11.doc.pdf\">State v. Swetz<\/a>, 160 Wn. App. 122 (2011).*<\/p>\n<p>Defendant\u2019s vehicle completely crossed the centerline coming down a hill to a stop sign, and then two wheels later crossed the centerline. The stop was valid, and the motion to suppress was erroneously granted. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.il.us\/court\/Opinions\/AppellateCourt\/2011\/2ndDistrict\/February\/2100112.pdf\">People v. Geier<\/a>, 407 Ill. App. 3d 553, 348 Ill. Dec. 552, 944 N.E.2d 793 (2011).*<\/p>\n<p>[posted 3\/2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5238\">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-5238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5238","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=5238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}