{"id":61468,"date":"2025-07-15T10:16:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T15:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61468"},"modified":"2025-07-15T10:16:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T15:16:18","slug":"e-d-la-use-of-translation-app-to-communicate-with-def-slowed-the-stop-but-didnt-make-it-unreasonable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61468","title":{"rendered":"E.D.La.: Use of translation app to communicate with def slowed the stop, but didn&#8217;t make it unreasonable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The officer\u2019s use of a translation app on his cell phone to communicate with defendant didn\u2019t unreasonably extend the stop. If limited questions can be asked, then logically an app can translate. Here, cell coverage was limited so that slowed the stop. United States v. Salvador, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 133082 (E.D. La. July 14, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Fourth Amendment does not apply to boarding and searching boats in international waters occupied by non-citizens. United States v. Winiewski, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 132912 (M.D. Fla. July 14, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trial court didn\u2019t err in finding that the person who consented to the entry had apparent authority. State v. Hayes, 2025-Ohio-2483 (3d Dist. July 14, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The affidavit was not so lacking in probable cause that there was no good faith basis for believing there was. United States v. Melvin, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 17290 (3d Cir. July 14, 2025).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The officer\u2019s use of a translation app on his cell phone to communicate with defendant didn\u2019t unreasonably extend the stop. If limited questions can be asked, then logically an app can translate. Here, cell coverage was limited so that slowed &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61468\">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":[30,97,11,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apparent-authority-2","category-foreign-searches","category-good-faith-exception","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61468","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=61468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61469,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61468\/revisions\/61469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}