{"id":11686,"date":"2014-05-23T22:01:55","date_gmt":"2014-05-24T03:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=11686"},"modified":"2014-07-06T12:32:47","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T17:32:47","slug":"id-statuette-of-patron-saint-of-drug-dealers-on-dashboard-was-a-factor-in-reasonable-suspicion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=11686","title":{"rendered":"ID: Statuette of patron saint of drug dealers on dashboard was a factor in reasonable suspicion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant was parked vehicle on a rural gravel road with bloodshot eyes and the presence of a statuette of the patron saint for drug traffickers, and that was reasonable suspicion. \u201cThe officer also noticed a Santa Muerte statuette on the dashboard of Perez-Jungo&#8217;s vehicle, which the officer testified was the patron saint of drug traffickers.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isc.idaho.gov\/opinions\/41158.pdf\">State v. Perez-Jungo<\/a>, 2014 Ida. App. LEXIS 58 (May 20, 2014). [Since I have one of those statuettes in my office &#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Defendant was parked when he was approached and talked to by an officer. He never got out of the car. The officer told him to wait while a drug dog was obtained. That was not a detention [Ha!] and reasonable suspicion was not required. Defendant, however, drove off, got into a high speed chase and was tossing drugs out of the car in flight. That was reasonable suspicion. <a href=\"http:\/\/appellate.nccourts.org\/opinions\/?c=2&#038;pdf=31182\">State v. Jackson<\/a>, 2014 N.C. App. LEXIS 497 (May 20, 2014).* [Telling defendant to wait for a drug dog is a seizure, and the court was clearly wrong, but the point is moot because defendant fled.]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a passenger in a stolen vehicle, Mohammed lacks standing to challenge the search of the vehicle.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/pacer.ca4.uscourts.gov\/opinion.pdf\/134492.U.pdf\">United States v. Mohammed<\/a>, 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 9534 (4th Cir. May 22, 2014).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant was parked vehicle on a rural gravel road with bloodshot eyes and the presence of a statuette of the patron saint for drug traffickers, and that was reasonable suspicion. \u201cThe officer also noticed a Santa Muerte statuette on the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=11686\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,35,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-reasonable-suspicion","category-standing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11686"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12420,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11686\/revisions\/12420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}