{"id":6849,"date":"2012-03-21T10:21:25","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T08:11:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T08:11:05","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6849","title":{"rendered":"N.D.Ga.: Living at house where drugs are sold still gives standing under <em>Carter<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defendants lived at the place searched, and the fact that it was also used to distribute drugs did not deny them standing under <a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=12808313816999818968&amp;q=Carter&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=20002\">Carter<\/a>. United States v. Vazquez-Velazquez, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 35867 (N.D. Ga. February 23, 2012):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Notwithstanding the Government&#8217;s evidence that the house at 1986 Benthill Drive was used for some drug activity, the evidence does not establish that the house was used <em>primarily<\/em> for drug operations. Based on the evidence discussed above, I conclude that Defendants met their burden of showing that they lived in the house and used it for ordinary activities of daily living, and thus, had a legitimate expectation of privacy in the house.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A traffic stop based on a reasonable belief that a traffic violation occurred is proper. United States v. Rodriguez-Trevino, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 36561 (N.D. Ga. February 21, 2012)*:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;the propriety of the traffic stop does not depend on whether the defendant is actually guilty of committing a traffic offense,&#8221; but instead, &#8220;the pertinent question is whether it was reasonable for the officer to believe that a traffic offense had been committed.&#8221; United States v. Crump, Criminal Action File No. 4:10-CR-032-HLM-WEJ, 2011 WL 6153106, at *5 (N.D. Ga. Nov. 21, 2011) (citation omitted), adopted by 2011 WL 6179211, at *8 (N.D. Ga. Dec. 12, 2011).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6849\">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-6849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6849","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=6849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}