{"id":63590,"date":"2026-03-17T08:31:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63590"},"modified":"2026-03-17T08:31:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:31:51","slug":"ny-tompkins-co-sw-used-for-inventory-of-safe-in-a-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63590","title":{"rendered":"NY Tompkins Co.: SW used for inventory of safe in a vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An ALPR told officers that the owner had a suspended DL, and that justified the stop. The passenger had an arrest warrant on him. The vehicle was impounded. Behind an unsecured panel, a digital safe was found, and it was impounded and opened with a warrant for inventory. This was valid. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nycourts.gov\/reporter\/3dseries\/2026\/2026_50302.htm\">People v. Carthen<\/a>, 2026 NY Slip Op 50302(U) (Tompkins Co. Mar. 9, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The justification for a stop doesn\u2019t have to be shown on a dashcam. [After all, what did we do before them?] \u201cIn this case, the State presented one witness with no supporting video evidence to corroborate his testimony at a suppression hearing. Where a single witness, if believed, can sustain a criminal conviction, then a single witness, if believed, can establish a lawful basis to conduct a traffic stop, perform a probable cause search, and effect an arrest under the Fourth Amendment. Detective Swindell also explained that his dash camera would not have captured these violations because of the orientation of his cruiser. The lack of video evidence to support his testimony does not render the stop constitutionally unsound.\u201d The court credited the officer. State v. Vance, 2026-Ohio-876 (11th Dist. Mar. 11, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fleeing from his vehicle with cell phone inside was abandonment. United States v. Peterson, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 7569 (6th Cir. Mar. 13, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ALPR told officers that the owner had a suspended DL, and that justified the stop. The passenger had an arrest warrant on him. The vehicle was impounded. Behind an unsecured panel, a digital safe was found, and it was &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63590\">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":[48,39,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-inventory","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63590","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=63590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63591,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63590\/revisions\/63591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}