{"id":22149,"date":"2016-05-16T00:04:54","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T05:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=22149"},"modified":"2016-05-15T15:25:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T20:25:49","slug":"ca11-ditching-a-backpack-and-then-fleeing-the-police-was-abandonment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=22149","title":{"rendered":"CA11: Ditching a backpack and then fleeing the police was abandonment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Defendant was a member of the Coast Guard stationed at Key West. He was a suspected peeping tom and the police had a description of a man with a backpack. When defendant was found he didn\u2019t have the backpack. He said it was in \u201chis house\u201d or \u201cthe house\u201d and then he fled. The backpack was found stashed under somebody else\u2019s porch. It was held abandoned. \u201cBecause any alleged unconstitutional stop or arrest occurred after Witten abandoned the backpack, the search cannot be the fruit of the poisonous tree.\u201d When it was searched, a computer was found and child pornography was found on the computer. United States v. Witten<\/a>, 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 8820 (11th Cir. May 13, 2016).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Defendant was a member of the Coast Guard stationed at Key West. He was a suspected peeping tom and the police had a description of a man with a backpack. When defendant was found he didn\u2019t have the backpack. He … Continue reading →<\/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":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22149","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=22149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22150,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22149\/revisions\/22150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}