{"id":6523,"date":"2012-02-16T09:17:48","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T10:31:54","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T10:31:54","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6523","title":{"rendered":"IN: Mere presence in a high-crime area did not justify stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant was seen sitting in a car in a parking lot known for drug activity. He got out, put on a backpack, and got on a bicycle and rode around in the parking lot. The officer stopped him, and he got belligerent which led to his handcuffing for officer safety and a search of his backpack finding pirated DVDs. The stop and search were without reasonable suspicion. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.in.gov\/judiciary\/opinions\/pdf\/01061201lmb.pdf\">Woodson v. State<\/a>, 960 N.E.2d 224 (Ind. App. 2012)*:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Officer Cooper testified here that he could not see any transaction between Woodson and the driver of the maroon car and there had been no report of criminal activity to which Officer Cooper was responding. Woodson did not attempt to flee the scene and hide or dump contraband upon completing a transaction and seeing a police officer approach in a high-crime area. See <a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=7609269699062274799&amp;q=844+N.E.2d+537&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=2,37\">Ross v. State<\/a>, 844 N.E.2d 537, 541-42 (Ind. Ct. App. 2006). Nor did Officer Cooper testify that in his training and experience Woodson&#8217;s behavior was of a type frequently displayed by individuals dealing in pirated DVDs, drugs, or any other contraband. See <a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=18284949035468249273&amp;q=670+N.E.2d+27&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=2,37\">Wilson v. State<\/a>, 670 N.E.2d 27, 28-29 (Ind. Ct. App. 1996) (concluding there was reasonable suspicion to detain defendant where the arresting officer was in a high-crime and -drug area, was trained in the factors pointing to drug transactions, and observed conduct conforming to this pattern).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6523\">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-6523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6523","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=6523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}