{"id":1738,"date":"2008-04-08T09:30:14","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T07:12:46","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T07:12:46","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=1738","title":{"rendered":"Disconnected 911 call was basis for knocking on door which opened and officers could step inside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;[A]t 5 A.M. on January 1, 2005, an unidentified &#8216;very hysterical sounding&#8217; male called the Fort Hall Police Department. The caller screamed something to the effect of &#8216;[g]et the cops here now&#8217; or &#8216;[g]et the cops now&#8217; to the residence of Dennis Snipe, Sonny&#8217;s father.&#8221; The call was disconnected. The police arrived, knocked on the door, and it swung open.  They stepped inside and saw drugs and a firearm in plain view. That was the basis for a search warrant, and <a href=\"http:\/\/caselaw.lp.findlaw.com\/scripts\/getcase.pl?court=us&amp;vol=000&amp;invol=05-502\"><em>Brigham City<\/em><\/a> made the entry lawful. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca9.uscourts.gov\/ca9\/newopinions.nsf\/AE945ADDB5C67D45882573DE005C8BFA\/$file\/0630215.pdf?openelement\">United States v. Snipe<\/a>, 515 F.3d 947 (9th Cir. 2008).<\/p>\n<p>Defendant&#8217;s assertions that defense counsel failed to properly present standing in the face of a <a href=\"http:\/\/caselaw.lp.findlaw.com\/scripts\/getcase.pl?court=us&amp;vol=000&amp;invol=97-1147\"><em>Carter<\/em><\/a> claim by the government that the presence on the premises was for a criminal enterprise is belied by the record because counsel continually argued standing. No ineffective assistance. Hayden v. United States, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 5452 (E.D. Mich. January 25, 2008).*<\/p>\n<p>There was abundant probable cause for the search of defendant&#8217;s car here[, the defendant essentially quibbling also over whether the window tint of his car was such that the officer could see inside]. United States v. Faison, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 5515 (E.D. Pa. January 25, 2008).*<\/p>\n<p>Officers had cause for stopping defendant because of his speeding and weaving, and his BAC test was justified under Georgia&#8217;s implied consent law which was not unconstitutional. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lexisone.com\/lx1\/caselaw\/freecaselaw?searchType=citation&amp;fclSearch=2008+Ga.+LEXIS+27+&amp;action=FCLSearchCaseByCitation&amp;pageLimit=10&amp;format=CITE&amp;pageNumber=1&amp;sourceID=&amp;citation=2008+Ga.+LEXIS+27+&amp;searchTerm=\">Cornwell v. State<\/a>, 2008 Ga. LEXIS 27 (January 28, 2008).*<\/p>\n<p>Officers were excused from complying with the knock and announce requirement because it was a useless gesture here: Defendant saw them coming and he came out before they knocked. <a href=\"http:\/\/supremecourt.ne.gov\/opinions\/2008\/january\/jan25\/s06-920.pdf\">State v. Ramirez<\/a>, 274 Neb. 873, 745 N.W.2d 214 (2008).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=1738\">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-1738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738","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=1738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}