{"id":7745,"date":"2013-04-14T11:05:26","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T08:26:20","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-23T08:26:20","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7745","title":{"rendered":"S.D.Ga.: Drug deal was reasonable suspicion for pat down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fact defendant was involved in a drug deal was reasonable suspicion for a patdown for weapons because of the likelihood a drug dealer will be armed, in the officer\u2019s experience. United States v. Collins, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 134899 (S.D. Ga. August 30, 2012).*<\/p>\n<p>Defendant contended that he was not subjected to a patdown before the officer reached into his pocket retrieving ammunition, but the video did not contradict the officer\u2019s testimony, so the finding of the district court is affirmed. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca5.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/unpub\/11\/11-30845.0.wpd.pdf\">United States v. Wiley<\/a>, 493 Fed. Appx. 481 (5th Cir. 2012).*<\/p>\n<p>Towing bankruptcy debtor\u2019s car by a private towing company did not involve the Fourth Amendment. In re Guancione, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 135613 (N.D. Cal. September 21, 2012).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7745\">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-7745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7745","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=7745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}