{"id":18031,"date":"2015-07-15T07:01:06","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T12:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18031"},"modified":"2015-07-15T07:01:06","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T12:01:06","slug":"ca2-a-can-in-a-brown-paper-bag-justified-a-drinking-in-public-stop-just-because-it-might-have-been-a-soft-drink-isnt-determinative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18031","title":{"rendered":"CA2: A can in a brown paper bag justified a drinking in public stop; just because it might have been a soft drink isn&#8217;t determinative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The district court erred in suppressing a stop by a parole officer of a parolee walking down the street with an apparent beer can in a brown paper bag that concealed what it was. Just because it could have been a soft drink doesn\u2019t lessen reasonable suspicion. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca2.uscourts.gov\/decisions\/isysquery\/1cd5f686-e826-4ecd-9cd5-57fa8e3f9463\/2\/hilite\/\">United States v. Singletary<\/a>, 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 12083 (2d Cir. July 14, 2015).*<\/p>\n<p>Probation and parole searches don\u2019t require reasonable suspicion in Indiana, and a search of defendant\u2019s nightstand for a potential firearm was reasonable. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.in.gov\/judiciary\/opinions\/pdf\/07101501tc.pdf\">State v. Terrell<\/a>, 2015 Ind. App. LEXIS 513 (July 10, 2015).*<\/p>\n<p>Defendant\u2019s stop was justified by his erratic driving recorded on the dashcam video. The officer first noticed that he made choppy movements during a turn, then, when he got in front of the officer, he flipped him off. The officer made a u-turn and followed, and more erratic driving was caught on video, at least enough for reasonable suspicion. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsc.state.tn.us\/sites\/default\/files\/aaronjeffreyopn.pdf\">State v. Aaron<\/a>, 2015 Tenn. Crim. App. LEXIS 552 (July 10, 2015).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The district court erred in suppressing a stop by a parole officer of a parolee walking down the street with an apparent beer can in a brown paper bag that concealed what it was. Just because it could have been &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18031\">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":[58,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-probationparole-search","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18031","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=18031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18032,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18031\/revisions\/18032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}