{"id":5810,"date":"2013-09-07T08:22:36","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T08:45:59","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T08:45:59","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5810","title":{"rendered":"Cal.2: Parking in a fire lane violation justified a stop; its &#8220;civil&#8221; nature didn&#8217;t matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officers saw defendant\u2019s Lincoln Town Car parked against a red curb, a fire lane, in violation of the Vehicle Code. They parked and approached, and defendant started to drive off, and they told him to stop, and he did. The fact that the fire lane violation was a civil infraction rather than a criminal violation was not significant under Whren. When they approached him, he made furtive movements, and drugs were validly found at his feet. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courtinfo.ca.gov\/opinions\/documents\/B223338.PDF\">People v. Bennett<\/a>, 197 Cal. App. 4th 907, 128 Cal. Rptr. 3d 595 (2d Dist. 2011).<\/p>\n<p>Illinois\u2019s constitutional privacy provision is written into the constitution, so it does not depend upon penumbras like the federal constitution and it is not in lockstep with the federal courts. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.il.us\/court\/Opinions\/AppellateCourt\/2011\/1stDistrict\/June\/1101463.pdf\">Hope Clinic for Women Ltd. v. Adams<\/a>,  2013 IL 112673, 353 Ill. Dec. 44, 955 N.E.2d 511 (2011).*<\/p>\n<p>CI\u2019s information who was involved in buying drugs from the defendant was probable cause for issuance of this search warrant. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.state.me.us\/court_info\/opinions\/2011%20documents\/11me81ni.pdf\">State v. Nigro<\/a>, 2011 ME 81, 24 A.3d 1283 (2011).*<\/p>\n<p>Defendant\u2019s failure to file a motion to suppress was a waiver of the issue. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.state.ny.us\/reporter\/3dseries\/2011\/2011_05995.htm\">People v Fulwood<\/a>, 2011 NY Slip Op 5995, 86 A.D.3d 809, 927 N.Y.S.2d 246 (3d Dept. 2011).*<\/p>\n<p>The trial court concluded that the defendant\u2019s girlfriend was in control of the car and had paid for the insurance on it, so she had the authority to consent. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.state.ny.us\/reporter\/3dseries\/2011\/2011_05991.htm\">People v Young<\/a>, 2011 NY Slip Op 5991, 86 A.D.3d 796, 927 N.Y.S.2d 221 (3d Dept. 2011).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5810\">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-5810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5810","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=5810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}