{"id":1896,"date":"2008-05-03T09:09:22","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T07:06:43","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-20T07:06:43","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=1896","title":{"rendered":"No agency relationship with police where defendant&#8217;s mother told them about incriminating letter then retrieved it at their suggestion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant&#8217;s mother found an incriminating letter and called the police. They sent her back inside to retrieve it. Because she acted independently when she called the police, there was no agency relationship with the police when they asked her go get the letter. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jud.state.ct.us\/external\/supapp\/Cases\/AROcr\/CR286\/286CR55.pdf\">State v. Betts<\/a>, 286 Conn. 88, 942 A.2d 364 (2008).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/caselaw.lp.findlaw.com\/scripts\/getcase.pl?court=us&amp;vol=000&amp;invol=06-8120\"><em>Brendlin<\/em><\/a> governs standing to challenge a stop while <a href=\"http:\/\/caselaw.lp.findlaw.com\/scripts\/getcase.pl?court=us&amp;vol=439&amp;invol=128\"><em>Rakas<\/em><\/a> still governs standing to challenge a vehicle search. The detention after the stop is governed by <a href=\"http:\/\/caselaw.lp.findlaw.com\/scripts\/getcase.pl?navby=case&amp;court=us&amp;vol=392&amp;page=1\"><em>Terry<\/em><\/a>. United States v. Martinez, 537 F. Supp. 2d 1153 (D. Kan. 2008).*<\/p>\n<p>Under <em>Brendlin<\/em>, defendant had standing to challenge his stop and the length of his own detention. Here it was reasonable. United States v. Tavarez-Rojas, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 20888 (W.D. N.C. February 21, 2008).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=1896\">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-1896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896","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=1896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}