{"id":8261,"date":"2013-05-19T22:03:31","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T00:00:06","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T20:00:23","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8261","title":{"rendered":"IN: Abandonment of gun in flight from arrest not a Fourth Amendment issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant abandoned a gun in flight from police where he crashed his moped, threw the gun so far it hit a house, then fled on foot. He claimed an illegal arrest was in the offing, but he can\u2019t flee and claim his abandonment was caused by the police. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.in.gov\/judiciary\/opinions\/pdf\/01181302rrp.pdf\">Hines v. State<\/a>, 2013 Ind. App. LEXIS 17 (January 18, 2013).*<\/p>\n<p>Officers had reasonable suspicion to stop defendant at 3:00 am in New Orleans who was bleeding from his arm and carrying a toolbox with broken glass on it. The area was known for car burglaries. In his hand was a wallet, and he couldn\u2019t say whose it was. He was put in a police car, unhandcuffed, and transported three blocks to the address in the wallet, and there was a pickup with a window knocked out. The stop and removing him to the address in the wallet in his hand was reasonable. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.la4th.org\/opinion\/2012\/322578.pdf\">State v. Foster<\/a>, 2012 La. App. LEXIS 1749 (La.App. 4 Cir. January 16, 2012).*<\/p>\n<p>Defendant was sitting in front of a convenience store and police pulled up to talk to him, and he spontaneously and voluntarily confessed. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.la4th.org\/opinion\/2011\/322317.pdf\">State v. King<\/a>, 109 So. 3d 941 (La. App. 4 Cir. 2013).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8261\">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-8261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8261","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=8261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}