{"id":64780,"date":"2026-09-11T18:15:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T23:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64780"},"modified":"2026-09-12T18:16:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T23:16:03","slug":"fl2-direction-to-roll-down-car-window-wasnt-seizure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64780","title":{"rendered":"FL2: Direction to roll down car window wasn&#8217;t seizure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cThe trial court found that \u2018the totality of the circumstances\u2019 and the holding in Greider mandated suppression because asking Fuchs to roll down his window converted the consensual welfare check into an unlawful investigatory stop. We disagree.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/flcourts-media.flcourts.gov\/content\/download\/2494950\/opinion\/Opinion_2025-1542.pdf\">State v. Fuchs<\/a>, 2026 Fla. App. LEXIS 6941 (Fla. 2d DCA Sep. 9, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A smoked blunt that appeared to be that and not just a smoked-down cigar is probable cause. \u201cWe emphasize that questions of reasonableness under the Fourth Amendment are inherently \u2018fact-specific.\u2019 Ohio v. Robinette, 519 U.S. 33, 39, 117 S. Ct. 417, 136 L. Ed. 2d 347 (1996) (Robinette II). Our decision today in no way creates a carte blanche broad sanctioning of all future seizures of plainly viewed cigars, smoked or unsmoked. Our opinion today simply confirms that where, as here, the intrinsic character of a smoked-down cigar stub preserved on the passenger seat of a vehicle reasonably and immediately suggests its incriminating nature to officers inadvertently observing it during a lawful traffic stop, the plain view exception to the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement may apply to permit officers to seize it.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/searchdro.kscourts.gov\/documents\/pdf\/caseDecisions\/a1a1073a-8c5c-48b9-9e63-e1e6c0c48ac9_127097.pdf\">State v. Barnes<\/a>, 2026 Kan. LEXIS 402 (Sep. 4, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe trial court found that \u2018the totality of the circumstances\u2019 and the holding in Greider mandated suppression because asking Fuchs to roll down his window converted the consensual welfare check into an unlawful investigatory stop. We disagree.\u201d State v. Fuchs, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64780\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64780","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=64780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64781,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64780\/revisions\/64781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}