{"id":16646,"date":"2015-04-07T09:08:30","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T14:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=16646"},"modified":"2015-04-07T09:08:30","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T14:08:30","slug":"ca5-where-texas-case-law-clear-on-issue-reasonable-mistake-of-law-under-heien-cant-be-used","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=16646","title":{"rendered":"CA5: Where Texas case law clear on issue, reasonable mistake of law under Heien can&#8217;t be used"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where Texas case law is clear on the issue that using a signal only applies to turns and not lane changes, it was unreasonable for the officer to rely on that statute here for a lane change, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/14pdf\/13-604_ec8f.pdf\">Heien<\/a> on reasonable mistake of law doesn\u2019t apply. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca5.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/pub\/13\/13-50745-CR0.pdf\">United States v. Alvarado-Zarza<\/a>, 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 5499 (5th Cir. April 6, 2015).<\/p>\n<p>In executing a drug warrant at a house, the police smelled marijuana coming from a car found there, and then saw in it an AR-15 in plain view. That justified a warrantless search of the car [and the court doesn\u2019t even discuss the fact that a warrant for a house includes vehicles on the curtilage associated with the house]. United States v. Avant, 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 44528 (E.D. Mich. April 6, 2015).*<\/p>\n<p>Defendant\u2019s stop for not having wide enough fenders on her pickup truck was reasonable suspicion. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isc.idaho.gov\/opinions\/42202.pdf\">State v. Edwards<\/a>, 2015 Ida. App. LEXIS 23 (April 6, 2015).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where Texas case law is clear on the issue that using a signal only applies to turns and not lane changes, it was unreasonable for the officer to rely on that statute here for a lane change, and Heien on &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=16646\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16646","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=16646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16647,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16646\/revisions\/16647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}