{"id":17231,"date":"2015-05-13T07:05:42","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T12:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17231"},"modified":"2015-05-13T13:01:07","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T18:01:07","slug":"ia-search-of-guests-backpack-was-reasonable-when-it-wasnt-clear-whose-it-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17231","title":{"rendered":"IA: Search of guest&#8217;s backpack was reasonable when it wasn&#8217;t clear whose it was"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officers did not have actual authority to search a guest\u2019s backpack during a consent search, but it wasn\u2019t clear whose backpack it was, so the search here was lawful. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iowacourts.gov\/About_the_Courts\/Court_of_Appeals\/Court_of_Appeals_Opinions\/Recent_Opinions\/20150506\/14-0067.pdf\">State v. Jackson<\/a>, 2015 Iowa App. LEXIS 400 (May 6, 2015).<\/p>\n<p>Defendant not only happened upon execution of a search warrant, but he was mentioned in the affidavit as somebody who traded stolen guns for methamphetamine. It was, therefore, reasonable to draw down on him and handcuff him at the time. Defendant consented to a search of his own place then withdrew it. A search warrant was obtained. There was a typographical error inside as to the county involved, but that\u2019s hardly a constitutional violation. It was apparent what was being searched. United States v. Franks, 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 60962 (E.D. Tex. May 4, 2015).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officers did not have actual authority to search a guest\u2019s backpack during a consent search, but it wasn\u2019t clear whose backpack it was, so the search here was lawful. State v. Jackson, 2015 Iowa App. LEXIS 400 (May 6, 2015). &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17231\">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":[59,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scope-of-search","category-warrant-requirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17231","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=17231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17239,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17231\/revisions\/17239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}