{"id":5874,"date":"2012-02-01T14:47:03","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T06:56:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T06:56:19","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5874","title":{"rendered":"CA3: Defendant&#8217;s dropping drugs in sudden flight from officers was cause for his arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant was walking down the street, and two officers in a parked car saw him coming. The passenger got out, and he had a vest with \u201cPOLICE\u201d on the front. Defendant turned and ran, dropping a bag of drugs as he fled. Officers retrieved the bag and ultimately caught the defendant. The stop was valid. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca3.uscourts.gov\/opinarch\/102040np.pdf\">United States v. Rivera<\/a>, 441 Fed. Appx. 87 (3d Cir. 2011).*<\/p>\n<p>Officers had reason to attempt to stop the defendant based on corroborated information from a CI. When they activated their patrol car lights, the defendant put his car in reverse and backed into the patrol car. He was not seized at that time because he had not yet stopped. <a href=\"http:\/\/pacer.ca4.uscourts.gov\/opinion.pdf\/104974.U.pdf\">United States v. Oakley<\/a>, 441 Fed. Appx. 989 (4th Cir. 2011).*<\/p>\n<p>Defendant claimed he did not understand English well enough to consent, but he had a job at one place for 17 years until the business closed, he conversed in English with the officers for a while, and his actions showed consent. His stating that he had to leave to go pick up his uncle was insufficient to show a withdrawal of consent. United States v. Lopez-Sanchez, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 86376 (N.D. Ind. August 4, 2011).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5874\">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-5874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5874","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=5874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}