{"id":13922,"date":"2014-10-28T10:27:41","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T15:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13922"},"modified":"2014-10-28T12:32:56","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T17:32:56","slug":"pa-search-of-an-aspirin-bottle-on-entering-a-courthouse-was-reasonable-cocaine-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13922","title":{"rendered":"PA: Search of an aspirin bottle on entering a courthouse was reasonable; cocaine found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant entered a county courthouse and emptied his pockets for the metal detector. He left an aspirin bottle in the tray which the officer shook. He concluded it contained something other than aspirin. Defendant wasn\u2019t detained but the bottle was. Cocaine was found and he was later arrested. The search of the aspirin bottle was reasonable as an area entry search to be sure nothing noxious or a weapon was coming in. This courthouse had three chemical weapons scares in the past, and there was a sign warning of searches of belongings. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-S64032-14o%20-%201019887202750306.pdf?cb=1\">Commonwealth v. Gillespie<\/a>, 2014 PA Super 245, 2014 Pa. Super. LEXIS 3941 (October 27, 2014).<\/p>\n<p>The district court denied the motion to suppress before trial, and a motion for new trial on the same grounds is denied for the same reason. United States v. Myers, 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 151714 (S.D. Miss. October 27, 2014).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant entered a county courthouse and emptied his pockets for the metal detector. He left an aspirin bottle in the tray which the officer shook. He concluded it contained something other than aspirin. Defendant wasn\u2019t detained but the bottle was. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13922\">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":[6,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motion-to-suppress","category-reasonable-expectation-of-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13922","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=13922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13930,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13922\/revisions\/13930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}