{"id":25703,"date":"2017-02-08T00:02:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T05:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=25703"},"modified":"2017-02-08T08:44:35","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T13:44:35","slug":"in-4a-doesnt-require-a-sw-be-obtained-at-the-earliest-possible-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=25703","title":{"rendered":"IN: 4A doesn&#8217;t require a SW be obtained at the earliest possible time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officers were tipped off to the defendant coming through with drugs eight hours before he was stopped. The stop was for speeding and weaving, and a drug dog was used which alerted. The fact the officers had eight hours warning didn\u2019t require them to get a search warrant. \u201cThe fact that there may or may not have been enough information to obtain a search warrant to search that same vehicle earlier that day has no impact on the legality of the subsequent search and seizure; officers do not have to obtain a warrant at the first practicable moment.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.in.gov\/judiciary\/opinions\/pdf\/02031702cjb.pdf\">Whitenack v. State<\/a>, 2017 Ind. App. LEXIS 45 (Feb. 3, 2017).<\/p>\n<p>A trailer hitch ball partially obstructing a license plate is reasonable suspicion for a stop. <a href=\"https:\/\/isc.idaho.gov\/opinions\/44098.pdf\">State v. Tregeagle<\/a>, 2017 Ida. App. LEXIS 12 (Feb. 3, 2017).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officers were tipped off to the defendant coming through with drugs eight hours before he was stopped. The stop was for speeding and weaving, and a drug dog was used which alerted. The fact the officers had eight hours warning &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=25703\">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":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-warrant-requirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25703","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=25703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25713,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25703\/revisions\/25713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}