{"id":7365,"date":"2013-04-14T11:35:32","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T07:44:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T07:44:31","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7365","title":{"rendered":"TX: Officer could stop and inquire of a car that pulled to a stop in front of him when he was parked at a light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An officer sitting at a red light at 1 am observed defendant\u2019s car pull off the road ahead and stop. It was reasonable for the officer to assume that the motorist was experiencing some sort of distress or problem, and the officer could pull up to inquire under the community caretaking function. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cca.courts.state.tx.us\/opinions\/HTMLopinionInfo.asp?OpinionID=22699\">Gonzales v. State<\/a>, 369 S.W.3d 851 (Tex. Crim. App. 2012).*<\/p>\n<p>Petitioner\u2019s stop was with reasonable suspicion of OWI, so his arrest and revocation of his driving privileges for refusing a breath test was permissible. Court of appeals reversed. <a href=\"http:\/\/wicourts.gov\/sc\/opinion\/DisplayDocument.pdf?content=pdf&amp;seqNo=84090\">In re Refusal of Anagnos; States v. Anagnos<\/a>, 2012 WI 64, 341 Wis. 2d 576, 815 N.W.2d 675 (2012).*<\/p>\n<p>Probable cause came from matching defendant\u2019s vehicle to several area gas station robberies, and then finding the car outside defendant\u2019s home. The fact it did not appear in the last video of a robbery was not determinative. United States v. Mercado-Ca\u00f1izares, 887 F. Supp. 2d 379 (D. P.R. 2012).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7365\">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-7365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7365","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=7365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}