{"id":25802,"date":"2017-02-12T10:57:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T15:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=25802"},"modified":"2017-02-12T10:57:19","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T15:57:19","slug":"ia-defs-fathers-search-of-his-stuff-was-objectively-as-a-concerned-parent-not-as-a-leo-so-its-a-private-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=25802","title":{"rendered":"IA: Def&#8217;s father&#8217;s search of his stuff was objectively as a concerned parent, not as a LEO so it&#8217;s a private search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant\u2019s stepfather was a Davenport police officer, and, off-duty, he searched defendant\u2019s property twice and turned it over to the police. The detail of his actions show him acting as a concerned parent, not as a law enforcement officer. Therefore, it&#8217;s a private search. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iowacourts.gov\/About_the_Courts\/Supreme_Court\/Supreme_Court_Opinions\/Recent_Opinions\/20170210\/15-1576.pdf\">State v. Brown<\/a>, 2017 Iowa Sup. LEXIS 9 (Feb. 10, 2017).<\/p>\n<p>The driver\u2019s and passenger\u2019s stories didn\u2019t match, so, when the warning was complete, the officer asked for consent and then called for a drug dog. Reasonable suspicion had developed by then. United States v. Melchior, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 17175 (D.Neb. Jan. 17, 2017).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant\u2019s stepfather was a Davenport police officer, and, off-duty, he searched defendant\u2019s property twice and turned it over to the police. The detail of his actions show him acting as a concerned parent, not as a law enforcement officer. Therefore, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=25802\">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":[43,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-private-search","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25802","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=25802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25803,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25802\/revisions\/25803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}