{"id":17126,"date":"2015-05-07T09:14:47","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T14:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17126"},"modified":"2015-05-07T15:10:14","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T20:10:14","slug":"tx4-private-security-guards-detention-for-police-was-based-on-reasonable-suspicion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17126","title":{"rendered":"TX4: Private security guards&#8217; detention for police was based on reasonable suspicion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas exclusionary rule applies to private actors. The club security guards here had at least reasonable suspicion to detain and handcuff defendant for attempting to sell cocaine in the club as a citizen\u2019s detention, akin to a citizen\u2019s arrest. They did not search him. The officer did and found drugs. It was reasonable. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.search.txcourts.gov\/SearchMedia.aspx?MediaVersionID=bfe84c04-f555-471b-8912-81ccb9b43416&#038;MediaID=92cbb961-5d8d-4bd4-b694-424968db204a&#038;coa=%22%20+%20this.CurrentWebState.CurrentCourt%20+%20@%22&#038;DT=Opinion\">Melendez v. State<\/a>, 2015 Tex. App. LEXIS 4577 (Tex. App. \u2013 San Antonio May 6, 2015).<\/p>\n<p>An officer responded to a domestic situation where apparently both participants were fighting, and the man was drunk. The officer separated them and took him outside for officer safety because he was the most belligerent and it was unknown if a weapon was in the house. This was reasonable and on reasonable suspicion, and defendant\u2019s actions thereafter justified his arrest. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsc.state.tn.us\/sites\/default\/files\/parvinjeremydopn.pdf\">State v. Parvin<\/a>, 2015 Tenn. Crim. App. LEXIS 334 (May 6, 2015).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas exclusionary rule applies to private actors. The club security guards here had at least reasonable suspicion to detain and handcuff defendant for attempting to sell cocaine in the club as a citizen\u2019s detention, akin to a citizen\u2019s arrest. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17126\">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":[50,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrest-or-entry-on-arrest","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17126","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=17126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17133,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17126\/revisions\/17133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}