AL: A visitor to premises targeted by a SW who is more than a “transient visitor” is subject to search

Defendant was a visitor at a house that was searched under a warrant for drugs. Her purse was searched, too. “Because Powers was more than a ‘transient visitor’ at Moyers’s house and had a known relationship to the premises, and because Powers’s purse was a container that could conceivably conceal the “illegal drugs” that law-enforcement officers were looking for in Moyers’s house, Powers’s Fourth Amendment rights were not violated when the officers searched her purse. Thus, the trial court did not err when it denied Powers’s motion to suppress.” (among conflicting authorities). Powers v. State, 2021 Ala. Crim. App. LEXIS 9 (Feb. 5, 2021).

The stop of defendant’s vehicle was justified by a traffic violation. The officer approaching the car saw in plain view a digital scale in the cupholder. This was reasonable suspicion. United States v. McIntyre, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 22712 (W.D. La. Jan. 20, 2021).*

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