{"id":64248,"date":"2026-06-17T12:26:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T17:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64248"},"modified":"2026-06-17T12:26:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T17:26:46","slug":"d-d-c-open-container-arrest-justified-search-incident-of-backpack-in-passenger-compartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64248","title":{"rendered":"D.D.C.: Open container arrest justified search incident of backpack in passenger compartment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Defendant was stopped for a traffic offense, and he had an open container in violation of D.C. law. That justified a search incident of the area around him, including a backpack. <a href=\"https:\/\/ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov\/cgi-bin\/show_public_doc?2025cr0359-36\">United States v. Smith<\/a>, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 131891 (D.D.C. June 12, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Probable cause to arrest for any offense defeats a malicious prosecution claim. Atsas v. Bowen, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 17161 (6th Cir. June 11, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHere, the Fifth Circuit case of United States v. Hernandez controls the outcome: the tip in this case had the requisite indicia of reliability, and the totality of the circumstances in which the tip was relayed to Agent D.B. provide the degree of suspicion needed for the stop. An individualized assessment of the Brignoni-Ponce factors also leads the Court to the same conclusion. Thus, the Court finds that the stop was supported by reasonable suspicion and, thus, there is no constitutional violation meriting the suppression of evidence that Wanzo seeks.\u201d United States v. Wanzo, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 132042 (W.D. Tex. June 12, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant was stopped for a traffic offense, and he had an open container in violation of D.C. law. That justified a search incident of the area around him, including a backpack. United States v. Smith, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 131891 &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64248\">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":[107,94,20,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration-arrests","category-immigration-checkpoints","category-probable-cause","category-search-incident"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64248","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=64248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64249,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64248\/revisions\/64249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}