{"id":7986,"date":"2012-11-20T08:09:48","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T08:09:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T08:09:48","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7986","title":{"rendered":"N.D.Ind.: Snitch giving \u201cappreciation piece\u201d from the crack to give to a drug runner is not a Fourth Amendment issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That the snitch broke off an \u201cappreciation piece\u201d from the crack to give to a drug runner when the drugs changed hands is not a Fourth Amendment issue. It isn\u2019t even government action. United States v. Lewis, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 164723 (N.D. Ind. November 19, 2012).*<\/p>\n<p>Defendant fled from where he was sitting when he saw a police officer, and he ran leaving things behind including a cell phone and marijuana. This was an abandonment. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visuperiorcourt.org\/opinions\/pdfs\/DMS55.pdf\">People v. Crooke<\/a>, 2012 V.I. LEXIS 60 (Super.Ct. November 14, 2012).*<\/p>\n<p>Defendant was stopped for crossing the fog line, and he blamed it on the police officer following him, which the court doesn\u2019t believe. United States v. Salas, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 165008 (E.D. Cal. November 1, 2012).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7986\">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-7986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7986","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=7986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}