{"id":60307,"date":"2025-03-03T01:56:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T06:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60307"},"modified":"2025-03-02T17:58:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T22:58:24","slug":"w-d-tex-body-camera-shows-stop-was-unreasonably-prolonged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60307","title":{"rendered":"W.D.Tex.: Body camera shows stop was unreasonably prolonged"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cAfter considering all evidence in context, including Officer Gonzalez&#8217;s testimony, her body camera video, and the rest of the record, the Court concludes that she unlawfully prolonged the traffic stop. Even when considering her experience and all facts from an objective officer&#8217;s standpoint, the facts known to her at that moment did not create reasonable suspicion of other criminal activity. And even if they did, her actions were still not reasonably related to those suspicions.\u201d She also embarked on an immigration investigation. Search suppressed. Identity evidence and statements of passengers are not. United States v. Rios, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 35945 (W.D. Tex. Jan. 31, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the R&amp;R, the government objected to the finding defendant had standing, but the defense showing showed it. The defense argument there was no showing of probable cause fails. United States v. Burgin, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 34909 (W.D.N.Y. Feb. 25, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nexus was shown to defendant\u2019s house from drug couriers leaving there to drug deals and back. United States v. Olmos, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 34601 (N.D. Okla. Feb. 25, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There appears to be probable cause for plaintiff\u2019s arrest, but whether or not that\u2019s true, the Fourth Amendment claim wasn\u2019t clearly established. Wieber v. Porter, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 4575 (10th Cir. Feb. 27, 2025).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAfter considering all evidence in context, including Officer Gonzalez&#8217;s testimony, her body camera video, and the rest of the record, the Court concludes that she unlawfully prolonged the traffic stop. Even when considering her experience and all facts from an &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60307\">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":[38,20,40,35,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nexus","category-probable-cause","category-qualified-immunity","category-reasonable-suspicion","category-standing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60307","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=60307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60308,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60307\/revisions\/60308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}