{"id":8589,"date":"2013-07-21T10:24:57","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T11:39:52","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-07T11:39:52","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8589","title":{"rendered":"FL2: Asleep at the wheel justified police encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parked in a store parking lot with the motor running and lights on but apparently asleep justified police contact. Telling the driver to roll down the window did not convert it to a stop. At that point the officer smelled marijuana. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.2dca.org\/opinions\/Opinion_Pages\/Opinion_Pages_2013\/April\/April%2005,%202013\/2D12-647.pdf\">Dermio v. State<\/a>, 2013 Fla. App. LEXIS 5553 (Fla. 2d DCA April 5, 2013).*<\/p>\n<p>Defendant was close enough to the description from an officer in pursuit of a suspect to justify his stop when another officer saw him. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sconet.state.oh.us\/rod\/docs\/pdf\/8\/2013\/2013-ohio-1345.pdf\">State v. Robinson<\/a>, 2013 Ohio 1345, 2013 Ohio App. LEXIS 1253 (8th Dist. April 4, 2013).*<\/p>\n<p>The search here produced a dead body in defendant\u2019s trunk. The denial of the motion to suppress has no findings, so there is nothing for appeal. Remanded for findings. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judicial.state.sc.us\/opinions\/HTMLFiles\/COA\/5110.pdf\">State v. Bruce<\/a>, 402 S.C. 621, 741 S.E.2d 590 (App. 2013).*<\/p>\n<p>There was still probable cause for the search of defendant\u2019s car: \u201cWe further hold the alleged inconsistencies between the police report and the officers&#8217; testimony do not necessarily warrant reversal of the trial court&#8217;s finding that the search of the vehicle was lawful.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judicial.state.sc.us\/opinions\/HTMLFiles\/COA\/5109.pdf\">State v. Tynes<\/a>, 402 S.C. 211, 740 S.E.2d 512 (2013).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8589\">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-8589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8589","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=8589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}