{"id":6412,"date":"2011-12-15T08:55:26","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T08:20:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T08:20:05","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6412","title":{"rendered":"N.D.W.Va.: Inventory policy does not have to be detailed if it otherwise complies with <em>Bertine<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An inventory policy does not have to be detailed if it otherwise complies with <a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=5874039504537729893&amp;q=bertine&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=2,44\">Bertine<\/a>. United States v. Davis, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 142923 (N.D. W.Va. December 12, 2011)*:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While it is true that there is not a written precise step-by-step process as to how to perform an inventory of a seized vehicle outlined in the Department\u2019s policy, it does require the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. the officer must have \u201clawful custody\u201d of the vehicle; and<\/p>\n<p>2. \u201c[t]he scope of the inventory shall be limited to those parts of a vehicle likely to conceal important, hazardous, or valuable items including, but not limited to, the passenger compartment, the trunk, and glove compartment.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The undersigned concludes the above quoted limitations in totality constitute the type of \u201cstandardized criteria\u201d referred to in <a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=5874039504537729893&amp;q=bertine&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=2,44\">Bertine<\/a>, Id., and certainly acts to \u201c\u2018curtail the discretion of the searching officer so as to prevent searches from becoming a \u201cruse for a general rummaging in order to discover incriminating evidence.\u2019\u201d Banks, supra at 738, 739.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6412\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6412","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}