{"id":19655,"date":"2015-11-25T00:32:31","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T05:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=19655"},"modified":"2015-11-23T08:34:12","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T13:34:12","slug":"id-auto-search-doesnt-have-to-stop-where-items-in-plain-view-were-seized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=19655","title":{"rendered":"ID: Auto search doesn&#8217;t have to stop where items in plain view were seized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Observation of contraband in plain view justified a search of a vehicle. The officer did not have to stop when he seized that which was first seen. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isc.idaho.gov\/opinions\/41730.pdf\">State v. Anderson<\/a>, 2015 Ida. App. LEXIS 118 (Nov. 17, 2015).<\/p>\n<p>Defendant was parked on the side of the road on a dark November night, and a game warden saw the vehicle and first suspected night hunting because of where the headlights were pointing. He stopped behind the vehicle and got out and said \u201cHi, Game Warden.\u201d As he approached, it was apparent that the occupants were not night hunting, but were just urinating on the side of the road. Defendant smelled of alcohol. He was not seized by the officer\u2019s words. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.maine.gov\/opinions_orders\/supreme\/lawcourt\/2015\/15me147ci.pdf\">State v. Ciomei<\/a>, 2015 ME 147, 2015 Me. LEXIS 162 (Nov. 17, 2015).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Observation of contraband in plain view justified a search of a vehicle. The officer did not have to stop when he seized that which was first seen. State v. Anderson, 2015 Ida. App. LEXIS 118 (Nov. 17, 2015). Defendant was &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=19655\">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":[36,51,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile-exception","category-plain-view","category-seizure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19655","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=19655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19656,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19655\/revisions\/19656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}