{"id":63659,"date":"2026-03-20T14:38:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T19:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63659"},"modified":"2026-03-20T14:38:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T19:38:58","slug":"dc-officers-unreasonable-mistake-of-law-did-not-make-the-stop-reasonable-under-heien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63659","title":{"rendered":"DC: Officer\u2019s unreasonable mistake of law did not make the stop reasonable under Heien"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The officer\u2019s unreasonable mistake of law on windshield tint (\u201ccan\u2019t have tint at all\u201d v. it can have some) did not make the stop reasonable under Heien. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dccourts.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-03\/Griffin%20v%20US%2024-CF-0993.pdf\">Griffin v. United States<\/a>, 2026 D.C. App. LEXIS 95 (Mar. 19, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant\u2019s nolo plea to a drug charge where the search also led to federal child pornography charges wasn\u2019t issue preclusion in federal court, followed CA2 and CA10. United States v. Vorse, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 57442 (D. Neb. Mar. 19, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officers knew and could see defendant fled into a house, and they could follow to arrest him. Versey v. Ebert, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 57555 (E.D. Wis. Mar. 19, 2026).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The officer\u2019s unreasonable mistake of law on windshield tint (\u201ccan\u2019t have tint at all\u201d v. it can have some) did not make the stop reasonable under Heien. Griffin v. United States, 2026 D.C. App. LEXIS 95 (Mar. 19, 2026). Defendant\u2019s &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63659\">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":[50,126,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrest-or-entry-on-arrest","category-issue-preclusion","category-reasonableness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63659","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=63659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63660,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63659\/revisions\/63660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}