{"id":17884,"date":"2015-07-03T05:56:56","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T10:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17884"},"modified":"2015-07-03T05:56:56","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T10:56:56","slug":"d-mass-true-inventory-not-defeated-by-subjective-intent-to-conduct-criminal-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17884","title":{"rendered":"D.Mass.: True inventory not defeated by subjective intent to conduct criminal search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reasonable suspicion to believe a wanted parole fugitive is in a vehicle is reasonable suspicion for a stop. The decision to tow, and thus inventory, the car was reasonable because both occupants were arrested and there was a pitbull left behind. \u201cEven if the officers had a subjective intent to conduct an investigatory search, such intent does not convert a permissible inventory search in accordance with a standardized policy into an impermissible, warrantless search.\u201d  United States v. Jeffreys, 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 84740 (D.Mass. June 30, 2015).<\/p>\n<p>Defendant\u2019s arrest after the statute of limitations but only 31 days after issuance of the arrest warrant was not unreasonable. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jud.state.ct.us\/external\/supapp\/Cases\/AROap\/AP158\/158AP354.pdf\">State v. Swebilius<\/a>, 2015 Conn. App. LEXIS 251 (July 7, 2015).*<\/p>\n<p>Defendant was 55 years old, of average intelligence, and, by all accounts, the consent was voluntary. It occurred in a relaxed conversational manner. United States v. Hardison, 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 85055 (W.D.Mo. June 30, 2015).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reasonable suspicion to believe a wanted parole fugitive is in a vehicle is reasonable suspicion for a stop. The decision to tow, and thus inventory, the car was reasonable because both occupants were arrested and there was a pitbull left &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17884\">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":[50,24,39,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrest-or-entry-on-arrest","category-consent","category-inventory","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17884","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=17884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17885,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17884\/revisions\/17885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}