{"id":7538,"date":"2012-11-19T06:24:27","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T08:01:20","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T08:01:20","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7538","title":{"rendered":"TX2: Community caretaking function couldn&#8217;t justify stop without a showing of motorist distress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was no reasonable suspicion for detaining defendant who was on a parking lot in a BMW at night with a door open in a supposedly high crime area. There was no indication that it was a high crime area, and defendant was doing nothing wrong. The state\u2019s alternative argument that the stop was justified under the community caretaking function fails, too, because there is no indication that the defendant was in distress needing help. The fact it was possible he might be in distress isn&#8217;t enough. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.2ndcoa.courts.state.tx.us\/opinions\/PDFopinion.asp?OpinionID=23577\">Hernandez v. State<\/a>, 376 S.W.3d 863 (Tex. App. \u2013 Ft. Worth 2012).<\/p>\n<p>As a \u201cmere passenger,\u201d defendant had no standing in the car he was in. United States v. Allman,  2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 108803 (D. S.D. August 3, 2012),* R&amp;R 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 108817 (D. S.D. June 29, 2012).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7538\">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-7538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7538","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=7538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}