{"id":26101,"date":"2017-03-06T10:23:51","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T15:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26101"},"modified":"2017-03-06T10:23:51","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T15:23:51","slug":"ca5-interstate-bus-passenger-had-no-standing-against-a-dog-sniff-of-the-luggage-compartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26101","title":{"rendered":"CA5: Interstate bus passenger had no standing against a dog sniff of the luggage compartment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interstate bus passenger had no standing against a dog sniff of the luggage compartment of the bus. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca5.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/unpub\/16\/16-30174.0.pdf\">United States v. Rodriguez-Lara<\/a>, 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 3774 (5th Cir. March 2, 2017):<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rodriguez-Lara, as a passenger on a commercial bus, had the same Fourth Amendment rights as a passenger in a private vehicle. &#8230; A passenger without a property or possessory interest in a vehicle has no reasonable expectation of privacy in the vehicle itself. &#8230; Thus, Rodriguez-Lara lacked standing to challenge the initial search of the bus&#8217;s exterior luggage compartment. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The canine officer&#8217;s subsequent sniff-search of the luggage was not a search within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment, and the canine officer&#8217;s alert to the possible presence of narcotics in the luggage constituted sufficient probable cause to permit law enforcement to search the luggage. &#8230; That probable cause permitted a warrantless search of the luggage pursuant to the automobile exception to the warrant requirement. &#8230; The district court did not err in denying Rodriguez-Lara&#8217;s motion to suppress. &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interstate bus passenger had no standing against a dog sniff of the luggage compartment of the bus. United States v. Rodriguez-Lara, 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 3774 (5th Cir. March 2, 2017):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dog-sniff","category-standing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26101","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=26101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26102,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26101\/revisions\/26102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}