{"id":1685,"date":"2008-04-06T18:29:32","date_gmt":"2008-01-12T07:25:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-12T07:25:10","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=1685","title":{"rendered":"Apparent hand-to-hand transaction alone from a car not enough for stop, but here there was more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant challenged his stop and arrest based on what appeared to be a hand to hand transaction. The alleged transaction alone was not enough to stop defendant in a high crime area, but there was a basis for a traffic stop, and that led to a request for consent. A drug dog was also lawfully used. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lexisone.com\/lx1\/caselaw\/freecaselaw?searchType=citation&amp;fclSearch=2008+Ga.+App.+LEXIS+26&amp;action=FCLSearchCaseByCitation&amp;pageLimit=10&amp;format=CITE&amp;pageNumber=1&amp;sourceID=&amp;citation=2008+Ga.+App.+LEXIS+26&amp;searchTerm=\">Thomas v. State<\/a>, 289 Ga. App. 161, 657 S.E.2d 247 (2008).*<\/p>\n<p>Defendant&#8217;s stop was justified by reasonable suspicion, and defendant filed an <em>Anders<\/em> brief on the merits. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sconet.state.oh.us\/rod\/newpdf\/5\/2008\/2008-ohio-31.pdf\">State v. Brocksmith<\/a>, 2008 Ohio 31, 2008 Ohio App. LEXIS 21 (5th Dist. January 7, 2008).*<\/p>\n<p>Defendant argued that &#8220;similar transaction&#8221; evidence was inadmissible because it was unlawfully obtained [apparently not arguing that it was inadmissible as 404(b) evidence or more prejudicial than relevant], but it was lawfully obtained, so it comes in. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lexisone.com\/lx1\/caselaw\/freecaselaw?searchType=citation&amp;fclSearch=2008+Ga.+App.+LEXIS+25+&amp;action=FCLSearchCaseByCitation&amp;pageLimit=10&amp;format=CITE&amp;pageNumber=1&amp;sourceID=&amp;citation=2008+Ga.+App.+LEXIS+25+&amp;searchTerm=\">Sherrer v. State<\/a>, 289 Ga. App. 156, 656 S.E.2d 258 (2008).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=1685\">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-1685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685","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=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}