{"id":54454,"date":"2023-03-07T08:52:18","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T13:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=54454"},"modified":"2023-03-07T08:52:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T13:52:18","slug":"ma-crack-pipe-seen-in-plain-view-of-passenger-compartment-justifies-search-of-whole-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=54454","title":{"rendered":"MA: Crack pipe seen in plain view of passenger compartment justifies search of whole car"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cThe question presented by this appeal is whether a State trooper&#8217;s plain view observation of a used crack pipe in a motor vehicle provides probable cause for a warrantless search of the entire vehicle for contraband drugs. Concluding that it does, we reverse the order of the Superior Court judge suppressing evidence of drugs found in a vehicle in which the defendant was traveling as a back seat passenger.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/files\/documents\/2023\/03\/06\/e22P0389.pdf\">Commonwealth v. Torres<\/a>, 2023 Mass. App. LEXIS 37 (Mar. 6, 2023).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no reasonable expectation of privacy in what a police officer does on the street. Videos they record can be released by the D.C. government. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dccourts.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2023-03\/FOP-MPDLC%20%20v.%20DC%20et%20 al%20%2021-CV-0511.pdf\">FOP Metro. Police Dep&#8217;t Labor Comm. v. District of Columbia<\/a>, 2023 D.C. App. LEXIS 59 (Mar. 2, 2023).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an otherwise consensual encounter, defendant\u2019s admission he was armed with a knife justified a patdown for it. United States v. Dazen, 2023 Dist. LEXIS 35926 (D. Ariz. Mar. 3, 2023).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe question presented by this appeal is whether a State trooper&#8217;s plain view observation of a used crack pipe in a motor vehicle provides probable cause for a warrantless search of the entire vehicle for contraband drugs. Concluding that it &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=54454\">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":[36,51,18,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile-exception","category-plain-view","category-reasonable-expectation-of-privacy","category-stop-and-frisk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54454","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=54454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54455,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54454\/revisions\/54455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}