{"id":8455,"date":"2014-01-29T07:43:17","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T07:39:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T07:39:50","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8455","title":{"rendered":"W.D.Mo.: Reasonable suspicion and knife clipped in pocket justified frisk for weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A knife in defendant\u2019s pocket, once reasonable suspicion developed, justified a frisk. United States v. Brown, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 28752 (W.D. Mo. January 28, 2013).*<\/p>\n<p>There was probable cause to arrest defendant and another for bank robbery. The bank robbers fled into woods, and the two  were seen coming out of the other side of the woods stuffing stuff into bags. When they saw the police they ran. The fact there might have been homeless people living in the woods did not mean the officer should discount that. United States v. Burston, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 29018 (N.D. Ga. January 4, 2013).*<\/p>\n<p>A police officer\u2019s visual estimate of speed can be reasonable suspicion to warrant a traffic stop. <a href=\"http:\/\/info.libraries.vermont.gov\/supct\/current\/op2012-130.html\">State v. Dunham<\/a>, 2013 VT 15, 193 Vt. 378, 67 A.3d 275 (2012).*<\/p>\n<p>Defendant\u2019s stop was justified by either too dark window tint or obscured license plate. As to the LPN, it didn\u2019t matter that the officer could read it right next to it. United States v. Bates, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 28844 (E.D. La. March 4, 2013).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8455\">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-8455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8455","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=8455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}