{"id":23679,"date":"2016-09-13T08:45:53","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T13:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23679"},"modified":"2016-09-13T08:45:53","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T13:45:53","slug":"pa-gsr-could-be-collected-under-search-incident-doctrine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23679","title":{"rendered":"PA: GSR could be collected under search incident doctrine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Removal of gunshot residue from defendant\u2019s hands was valid under search incident doctrine. McNeely didn\u2019t apply. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-A13002-16o%20-%201028052358866906.pdf?cb=1\">Commonwealth v. Simonson<\/a>, 2016 PA Super 207, 2016 Pa. Super. LEXIS 527 (Sept. 12, 2016).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNonetheless, other facts support a finding of reasonable suspicion. Courts have recognized that rental cars often serve as a common mode of transportation for drug trafficking. &#8230; And the fact that Defendants&#8217; rental car had a tinted license plate cover and a screwdriver in the door console further supported the presence of reasonable suspicion. Sgt. Dawsey testified that he was surprised to see a tinted license plate cover on a rental car because, based on his experience, tinted license plate covers are used to evade law enforcement by eluding traffic cameras and covering up the vehicle&#8217;s state of origin. &#8230; He also testified that the screwdriver in the rental car raised his suspicion because it may have been used to install the license plate cover. &#8230; Additionally, Defendants were traveling on a known drug corridor, a fact that also supports a finding of reasonable suspicion. &#8230; The Court concludes that each of these unique facts, considered in their totality, created reasonable suspicion for Sgt. Dawsey to prolong the traffic stop to dispel his suspicion.\u201d United States v. Glenn, 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 119321 (M.D.La. Sept. 2, 2016).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Removal of gunshot residue from defendant\u2019s hands was valid under search incident doctrine. McNeely didn\u2019t apply. Commonwealth v. Simonson, 2016 PA Super 207, 2016 Pa. Super. LEXIS 527 (Sept. 12, 2016). \u201cNonetheless, other facts support a finding of reasonable suspicion. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23679\">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":[35,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reasonable-suspicion","category-search-incident"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23679","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=23679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23680,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23679\/revisions\/23680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}