{"id":60337,"date":"2025-03-07T09:42:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T14:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60337"},"modified":"2025-03-07T09:42:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T14:42:19","slug":"va-driver-cant-consent-to-search-of-passengers-purse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60337","title":{"rendered":"VA: Driver can&#8217;t consent to search of passenger&#8217;s purse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Driver\u2019s consent to search did not extend to a woman\u2019s purse that obviously wasn\u2019t his. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vacourts.gov\/static\/opinions\/opncavwp\/0419244.pdf\">Myers v. Commonwealth<\/a>, 2025 Va. App. LEXIS 138 (Mar. 4, 2025).<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the totality of the circumstances, including a suspected drug transaction, the vehicle&#8217;s evasive conduct, and defendant\u2019s admission to having a gun, there was reasonable suspicion he was engaged in criminal activity and was armed and dangerous. In light of that, the officers reasonably chose to draw their weapons and use handcuffs to protect themselves. United States v. Williams, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 4942 (6th Cir. Mar. 3, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These search warrants satisfied the particularity requirement because they sufficiently described the generic classes of electronic evidence that could contain recordings of the victim. This was necessary given the hidden nature of the suspected recordings. Defendant failed to show that a motion to suppress would have clearly succeeded, so his ineffective assistance claim fails. Smerk v. State, 2025 Ga. App. LEXIS 95 (Mar. 4, 2025).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driver\u2019s consent to search did not extend to a woman\u2019s purse that obviously wasn\u2019t his. Myers v. Commonwealth, 2025 Va. App. LEXIS 138 (Mar. 4, 2025). On the totality of the circumstances, including a suspected drug transaction, the vehicle&#8217;s evasive &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60337\">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":[24,65,35,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consent","category-particularity","category-reasonable-suspicion","category-scope-of-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60337","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=60337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60338,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60337\/revisions\/60338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}