{"id":23057,"date":"2016-07-25T08:22:27","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T13:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23057"},"modified":"2016-07-25T08:22:27","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T13:22:27","slug":"nj-heien-reasonable-mistake-doesnt-apply-to-an-unambiguous-statute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23057","title":{"rendered":"NJ: Heien reasonable mistake doesn&#8217;t apply to an unambiguous statute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant was parked with high beams on on a one way street. The statute unambiguously says that it was not a violation unless there was an oncoming vehicle, and being on a one way street or an officer on foot doesn\u2019t count. Thus, the stop was invalid. This is not a mistake of law under Heien because the statute is unambiguous. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judiciary.state.nj.us\/opinions\/supreme\/A1115SvA.pdf\">State v. Scriven<\/a>, 2016 N.J. LEXIS 698 (July 20, 2016).*<\/p>\n<p>Defendant did not consent to the PBT test because he wasn\u2019t told of right to refuse, and he passed the field sobriety test. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.illinoiscourts.gov\/Opinions\/AppellateCourt\/2016\/2ndDistrict\/2150634.pdf\">People v. Taylor<\/a>, 2016 IL App (2d) 150634, 2016 Ill. App. LEXIS 476 (July 20, 2016).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant was parked with high beams on on a one way street. The statute unambiguously says that it was not a violation unless there was an oncoming vehicle, and being on a one way street or an officer on foot &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23057\">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":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reasonableness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23057","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=23057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23058,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23057\/revisions\/23058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}