{"id":8176,"date":"2013-02-06T11:41:51","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T07:23:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T07:23:33","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8176","title":{"rendered":"OH2: The city vehicle tow policy was put into evidence, and there was no evidence this inventory was pretext"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant was stopped for a traffic offense, and he admitted that he had no DL. That was probable cause to arrest him right there. The city tow policy was put into evidence, and there was no evidence that the inventory of the vehicle was a pretext for an evidentiary search. Defendant blurted out that there was a gun in the glove compartment, and that was cause to search it. [Although it would have been valid under the inventory anyway.] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sconet.state.oh.us\/rod\/docs\/pdf\/2\/2012\/2012-ohio-6189.pdf\">State v. Shipp<\/a>, 2012 Ohio 6189, 2012 Ohio App. LEXIS 5390 (2d Dist. December 28, 2012).<\/p>\n<p>Police observed defendant\u2019s girlfriend get out of his vehicle and they were yelling at each other. They came up to her to see what was going on, and she said the two of them had been drinking all day and were \u201cworking on [their] relationship.\u201d She seemed intoxicated. He came back and stopped, and they talked to him, and he seemed intoxicated. The detention was valid. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.in.gov\/judiciary\/opinions\/pdf\/12311201msm.pdf\">Bowers v. State<\/a>, 980 N.E.2d 911 (Ind. App. 2012).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8176\">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-8176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8176","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=8176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}