{"id":8895,"date":"2014-02-15T09:37:30","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T01:00:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-16T17:17:11","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8895","title":{"rendered":"IL: Defendant\u2019s buying a one-way train ticket with cash is not probable cause to search his luggage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant\u2019s buying a one-way train ticket with cash is not probable cause to search his luggage. Cash was suppressed and forfeiture denied, and it was affirmed on appeal. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.il.us\/court\/Opinions\/AppellateCourt\/2013\/1stDistrict\/1111820.pdf\">People v. $280,020 in United States Currency<\/a>, 2013 IL App (1st) 111820, 372 Ill. Dec. 691, 992 N.E.2d 533 (2013). [Yes, there still are drug courier profile cases. Just not as many as before.]<\/p>\n<p>Defendant who sold drugs out of an apartment lacked standing to challenge its search where he was not the renter and not on the utility bills. It was a \u201cstash house.\u201d \u201cWhile Jones may have spent some nights in the apartment, his primary activity was selling drugs, an illicit commercial function that society doesn&#8217;t value. Therefore, the court finds that Jones has not met his burden of proving he has standing to challenge the results of the Melville Street search.\u201d Even if he had standing, he loses on the merits of probable cause for the warrant based on the sale from inside. United States v. Jones, 949 F. Supp. 2d 316 (D. Mass. 2013).*<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[T]he [implied] agreement between the PVPD and the LPD [for a drug buy operation in one city] constituted a \u2018request for assistance\u2019 under K.S.A. 2012 Supp. 22-2401a(2)(b) and, therefore, the PVPD&#8217;s drug buy was a lawful exercise of its law enforcement authority.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kscourts.org\/Cases-and-Opinions\/opinions\/CtApp\/2013\/20130614\/108930.pdf\">State v. Vrabel<\/a>, 49 Kan. App. 2d 61, 305 P.3d 35 (2013).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8895\">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-8895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8895","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=8895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}