{"id":1799,"date":"2008-04-06T18:20:23","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T06:00:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T08:21:44","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=1799","title":{"rendered":"Prior drug arrests can be a factor in reasonable suspicion; nervousness is not much of one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The record supports the finding of reasonable suspicion in this case, but the defendant&#8217;s nervousness is not much of a factor. Prior drug arrests can be. <a href=\"http:\/\/supremecourt.ne.gov\/opinions\/2008\/february\/feb15\/s07-593.pdf\">State v. Louthan<\/a>, 275 Neb. 101, 744 N.W.2d 454 (2008):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An individual&#8217;s criminal history may be a relevant factor when determining whether an officer has reasonable suspicion to detain an individual. In <em>Lee<\/em>, this court held that the officers&#8217; awareness that the motorist had unspecified &#8220;&#8216;prior drug arrests'&#8221; could be considered as a part of the totality of the circumstances in determining whether there was a reasonable, articulable suspicion which would warrant continued detention pending the arrival of a drug detection dog.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Defendant was &#8220;in custody&#8221; when he was in the police car after an arrest at the scene of an accident. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.ak.us\/courts\/ops\/ap-2149.pdf\">Rockwell v. State<\/a>, 176 P.3d 14 (Alas. App. 2008) (applying <a href=\"http:\/\/caselaw.lp.findlaw.com\/scripts\/getcase.pl?navby=case&amp;court=us&amp;vol=468&amp;page=420\">Berkemer<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>An issue not even necessary to discuss in this case still decided for no apparent reason: A citizen informant is presumptively reliable. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawlibrary.state.mn.us\/archive\/supct\/0802\/OPA060072-0214.pdf\">State v. Timberlake<\/a>, 744 N.W.2d 390 (Minn. 2008).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=1799\">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-1799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799","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=1799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}