{"id":61604,"date":"2025-08-05T12:09:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T17:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61604"},"modified":"2025-08-06T07:45:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T12:45:47","slug":"va-drugs-on-the-person-during-a-stop-led-to-pc-for-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61604","title":{"rendered":"VA: Drugs on the person during a stop led to PC for vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The patdown of defendant\u2019s person produced drugs. That gave probable cause to search the car too. McCoy v. Commonwealth, 2025 Va. App. LEXIS 445 (Aug. 5, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The state gets a hearing on whether there was additional information they had which was not included in the search warrant application. People v. Battle, 2025 N.Y. Misc. LEXIS 6448, 2025 NY Slip Op 51217(U) (Erie Co. July 30, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was no probable cause for an ion swab of defendant\u2019s car as required in United States v. Dirksmeyer, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 8423 (D. Minn. Jan. 16, 2025), but the good faith exception still applies. United States v. Meeks, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 148982 (D. Minn. Aug. 4, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant fails in his Franks duty to make a substantial preliminary showing that the falsity undermined the probable cause. United States v. Gray, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 148858 (E.D. Pa. Aug. 4, 2025).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The patdown of defendant\u2019s person produced drugs. That gave probable cause to search the car too. McCoy v. Commonwealth, 2025 Va. App. LEXIS 445 (Aug. 5, 2025). The state gets a hearing on whether there was additional information they had &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61604\">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":[36,21,11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile-exception","category-franks-doctrine","category-good-faith-exception","category-motion-to-suppress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61604","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=61604"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61607,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61604\/revisions\/61607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}