{"id":5257,"date":"2011-06-02T06:28:29","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T05:50:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T05:50:12","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5257","title":{"rendered":"MA: Passenger without a seatbelt can be asked for ID to issue citation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A passenger riding without a seat belt is in violation of state law, and, when the vehicle is stopped, the officer has reason to ask the passenger for identification to issue the citation. <a href=\"http:\/\/weblinks.westlaw.com\/result\/default.aspx?action=Search&amp;cnt=DOC&amp;db=MA-ORSLIP&amp;eq=search&amp;fmqv=c&amp;fn=_top&amp;method=TNC&amp;n=4&amp;origin=Search&amp;query=TO%28ALLSCT+ALLSCTRS+ALLSCTOJ%29&amp;rlt=CLID_QRYRLT44392145483&amp;rltdb=CLID_DB313362045483&amp;rlti=1&amp;rp=%2Fsearch%2Fdefault.wl&amp;rs=MAOR1.0&amp;service=Search&amp;sp=MassOF-1001&amp;srch=TRUE&amp;ss=CNT&amp;sskey=CLID_SSSA923522045483&amp;vr=1.0\">Commonwealth v. Washington<\/a>, 459 Mass. 32, 944 N.E.2d 98 (2011).*<\/p>\n<p>The court finds that the officer did not testify falsely about how some information was gathered about defendant\u2019s AmTrak ticket. So, a Franks hearing is rejected. And, even if it he did testify falsely, it would not change the outcome of the suppression hearing because there was probable cause without it. United States v. McKenzie, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 21202 (D. N.M. February 10, 2011).*<\/p>\n<p>While the N.C. following too close statute is subject to subjective interpretation by an officer, the \u201cone car length per 10 miles per hour\u201d is a reasonable evaluation and makes it less subjective. United States v. Flores-Duran, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 20898 (E.D. N.C. February 3, 2011), adopted by, motion denied by United States v. Flores-Duran, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 19487 (E.D.N.C., Feb. 25, 2011).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5257\">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-5257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5257","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=5257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}