{"id":64925,"date":"2026-10-01T14:33:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T19:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64925"},"modified":"2026-10-01T14:33:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T19:33:54","slug":"d-n-m-checking-vin-number-during-traffic-stop-is-reasonable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64925","title":{"rendered":"D.N.M.: Checking VIN number during traffic stop is reasonable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>During a traffic stop, asking for identification and about travel plans and checking the VIN is reasonable under N.Y. v. Class. United States v. Sanchez, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 223586 (D.N.M. Sep. 30, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant was a passenger in a traffic stopped and she was handcuffed and believed she was detained since the driver was told that. Miranda applies. Traffic detainees are not normally handcuffed. United States v. Calvert, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 223163 (N.D. Iowa Sep. 30, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2255 petitioner doesn\u2019t show that raising his Fourth Amendment issue sooner would have changed the outcome. United States v. Abdi, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 223027 (E.D. Mich. Sep. 30, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even though the officer couldn\u2019t see the driver because of window tint, under Glover it was still reasonable to assume the registered owner was the driver. United States v. Williams, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 220561 (N.D. Ala. Aug. 28, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a traffic stop, asking for identification and about travel plans and checking the VIN is reasonable under N.Y. v. Class. United States v. Sanchez, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 223586 (D.N.M. Sep. 30, 2026). Defendant was a passenger in a &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64925\">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":[117,23,35,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-custody","category-ineffective-assistance","category-reasonable-suspicion","category-reasonableness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64925","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=64925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64926,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64925\/revisions\/64926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}