{"id":14175,"date":"2014-11-14T17:19:03","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T22:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=14175"},"modified":"2014-11-14T17:19:03","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T22:19:03","slug":"mo-bandana-covering-lower-half-of-face-in-high-crime-area-is-reasonable-suspicion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=14175","title":{"rendered":"MO: Bandana covering lower half of face in high crime area is reasonable suspicion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHere, Officer Lane testified that when he passed the vehicle at approximately 11:40 P.M., he observed a rear passenger with a bandana covering the lower half of his face. The parking lot was in a high-crime area. Officer Lane thought the face covering at that time and place was \u2018odd\u2019 and \u2018suspicious,\u2019 and he wanted to investigate further. We agree with the trial court that wearing a bandana or cloth over one&#8217;s face is indicative that the person is trying to disguise himself, which should cause a reasonable police officer to conclude in light of his experience that criminal activity \u2018may be afoot.\u2019\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.mo.gov\/file.jsp?id=80459\">State v. Spires<\/a>, 2014 Mo. App. LEXIS 1265 (November 12, 2014).<\/p>\n<p>Defendant failed in his burden of showing standing before the USMJ, but the court\u2019s concerned enough about alleged factual disputes that it will let him reopen the record to put on more. United States v. Howell, 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 159112 (E.D. Wis. November 12, 2014),* R&#038;R 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 159113 (E.D. Wis. March 6, 2014).*<\/p>\n<p>During a traffic stop for no taillights, obvious on the dashcam video, the officer saw marijuana flakes on the driver\u2019s shirt. That was at least reasonable suspicion. United States v. Johnson, 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 159521 (D. Minn. September 11, 2014), R&#038;R 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 159729 (D. Minn. November 12, 2014).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHere, Officer Lane testified that when he passed the vehicle at approximately 11:40 P.M., he observed a rear passenger with a bandana covering the lower half of his face. The parking lot was in a high-crime area. Officer Lane thought &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=14175\">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":[66,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-burden-of-proof","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14175","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=14175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14176,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14175\/revisions\/14176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}