{"id":8047,"date":"2012-12-04T07:54:39","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T07:54:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T07:54:39","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8047","title":{"rendered":"W.D.Pa.: Damaged mail parcel led to RS of MJ and a valid SW and controlled delivery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A damaged package in a mail sorting center obviously contained marijuana, so the USPS Postal Inspection Service got a search warrant and opened it, finding marijuana. A controlled delivery was arranged. The package went from a house to a car, and the car was stopped. The brief detention of the package to get a search warrant was valid under <a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=17761844664611904790&amp;q=van+leeuwan&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=2,4\">Van Leeuwen<\/a>, even though it went over a weekend. This defendant\u2019s challenge of the stop of the car was without standing. United States v. Hayes, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 170915 (W.D. Pa. December 3, 2012).*<\/p>\n<p>Statement at guilty plea that defense counsel did everything requested (\u201cBoyd&#8217;s solemn pronouncement made under oath at his guilty plea hearing-that Evatt had done everything that he had asked her to do for him-forecloses any argument at this time that Evatt failed to respond to Boyd&#8217;s requests.\u201d) precluded an IAC claim for not appealing a suppression motion that was denied. United States v. Boyd, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 171123 (D. S.C. December 3, 2012).*<\/p>\n<p>Defendant\u2019s stop was based on specific and detailed information from a CI that heroin was being carried in the air vent of defendant\u2019s car. The conflicting information given after the stop added to it. One defendant conceded no standing in the car as a passenger. United States v. Genao, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 170941 (D. Me. December 3, 2012).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8047\">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-8047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8047","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=8047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}