{"id":19176,"date":"2015-10-13T06:49:50","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T11:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=19176"},"modified":"2015-10-13T07:18:31","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T12:18:31","slug":"vi-vehicle-matching-description-of-car-in-robbery-flees-and-crashed-into-police-car-is-pc-for-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=19176","title":{"rendered":"VI: Vehicle matching description of car in robbery fleeing and crashing into police car is PC for stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officers had probable cause to stop defendant\u2019s vehicle as being involved in a robbery. They set up a \u201cchoke point\u201d on the flight route away and saw the vehicle, and the driver fled from multiple attempts to stop it. Then there was a chase and it crashed into a police car. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visuperiorcourt.org\/opinions\/pdfs\/People%20v.%20Calvin%20Lloyd%20(DAB).pdf\">People v. Lloyd<\/a>, 2015 V.I. LEXIS 122 (Super.Ct. Sept. 29, 2015).<br \/>\njavascript:openWindowNoMenu(&#8216;pdfs\/People v. Calvin Lloyd (DAB).pdf&#8217;);<\/p>\n<p>Defendant\u2019s girlfriend consented to the search of his apartment. There was a finding of apparent authority [but the court does not share how it was apparent if it was his apartment]. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.state.ny.us\/reporter\/3dseries\/2015\/2015_07393.htm\">People v. Nance<\/a>, 2015 NY Slip Op 07393, 2015 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 7427 (4th Dept. Oct. 9, 2015).* (Once again, in the interest of brevity, all reasoning is lost.)<\/p>\n<p>A window tint violation supports a stop. The officer is not required to know with certainty that the window tint violates the law. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visuperiorcourt.org\/opinions\/pdfs\/People%20v.%20Ansel%20Smith%20(DAB).pdf\">People v. Smith<\/a>, 2015 V.I. LEXIS 121 (Super.Ct. Sept. 29, 2015).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officers had probable cause to stop defendant\u2019s vehicle as being involved in a robbery. They set up a \u201cchoke point\u201d on the flight route away and saw the vehicle, and the driver fled from multiple attempts to stop it. Then &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=19176\">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":[30,20,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apparent-authority-2","category-probable-cause","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19176","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=19176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19180,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19176\/revisions\/19180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}