{"id":63522,"date":"2026-03-10T10:08:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T15:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63522"},"modified":"2026-03-10T10:08:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T15:08:54","slug":"id-aw-for-suspected-passenger-allowed-police-to-enter-curtilage-to-look-in-parked-car-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63522","title":{"rendered":"ID: AW for suspected passenger allowed police to enter curtilage to look in parked car at night"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Officers could enter defendant\u2019s curtilage to look in his just parked car at night. They had an arrest warrant for a suspected passenger and they couldn\u2019t tell whether she was in the car before it was parked under Payton. <a href=\"https:\/\/isc.idaho.gov\/opinions\/51328.pdf\">State v. Troup<\/a>, 2026 Ida. App. LEXIS 14 (Mar. 9, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where vehicle insurance is in the DMV database showing the car insured, it is unreasonable under Rodriguez to extend the stop for not showing insurance. Petino v. State, 2026 Ga. App. LEXIS 147 (Mar. 9, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cInvestigator Green&#8217;s subjective motivations for initiating the traffic stop are also irrelevant\u201d because it was otherwise objectively reasonable. United States v. Bryant, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 47891 (N.D. Ala. Mar. 9, 2026).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officers could enter defendant\u2019s curtilage to look in his just parked car at night. They had an arrest warrant for a suspected passenger and they couldn\u2019t tell whether she was in the car before it was parked under Payton. State &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63522\">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":[50,19,86,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrest-or-entry-on-arrest","category-curtilage","category-pretext","category-reasonableness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63522","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=63522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63523,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63522\/revisions\/63523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}