{"id":1631,"date":"2008-04-13T21:06:57","date_gmt":"2007-12-25T23:44:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-26T09:12:36","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=1631","title":{"rendered":"Plain feel justified removal of baggie from pants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seatbelt stop led to officer seeing an empty holster in the back seat, and that justified a patdown. As defendant stepped out, the officer smelled marijuana on his person, and the feel of a baggie made it immediately apparent he was in possession of marijuana. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lexisone.com\/lx1\/caselaw\/freecaselaw?searchType=citation&amp;fclSearch=2007+S.C.+App.+LEXIS+231&amp;action=FCLSearchCaseByCitation&amp;pageLimit=10&amp;format=CITE&amp;pageNumber=1&amp;sourceID=&amp;citation=2007+S.C.+App.+LEXIS+231&amp;searchTerm=\">State v. Odom<\/a>, 656 S.E.2d 748, 376 S.E.2d 330 (2007).*<\/p>\n<p>Officer lacked a reasonable suspicion that defendant&#8217;s temporary vehicle registration was expired when he made and continued the stop, but the court stresses that its holding is limited. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courtinfo.ca.gov\/opinions\/documents\/A115164.PDF\">People v. Dean<\/a>, 158 Cal. App. 4th 377 (1st Dist. 2007)* (considering California&#8217;s penchant for unpublished opinions, this one seems like it should have been too).<\/p>\n<p>Highway patrol officer had authority to arrest petitioner for DWI on private property in construing state statute. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.court.state.nd.us\/court\/opinions\/20070152.htm\">Brewer v. Ziegler<\/a>, 2007 ND 207, 743 N.W.2d 391 (2007).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=1631\">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-1631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}