{"id":26188,"date":"2017-03-11T09:59:25","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T14:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26188"},"modified":"2017-03-11T09:59:25","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T14:59:25","slug":"ma-impoundment-unreasonable-in-purported-high-crime-area-that-was-partly-residential-with-other-cars-already-there-swiss-army-knife-not-an-indicator-other-weapons-in-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26188","title":{"rendered":"MA: Impoundment unreasonable in purported &#8220;high crime&#8221; area that was partly residential with other cars already there; Swiss Army knife not an indicator other weapons in car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant was stopped and arrested in a \u201chigh crime\u201d area [which apparently didn\u2019t include stripping cars]. The area was partly residential and other cars were parked on the street, too.<br \/>\nThat alone didn\u2019t make it reasonable to have to impound the vehicle. A search of the vehicle for weapons wasn\u2019t justified by finding a Swiss Army knife in it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/courts\/docs\/sjc\/reporter-of-decisions\/new-opinions\/12128.pdf\">Commonwealth v. Crowley-Chester<\/a>, 2017 Mass. LEXIS 126 (March 9, 2017).<\/p>\n<p>Defendant gets a new trial because defense counsel misinformed her of the admissibility of her blood evidence and she pled guilty. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.search.txcourts.gov\/SearchMedia.aspx?MediaVersionID=1e266572-4a6f-4833-acba-3b778212a774&#038;MediaID=dbcbf48c-8a1a-4ac6-aafe-f701183024d9&#038;coa=%22%20+%20this.CurrentWebState.CurrentCourt%20+%20@%22&#038;DT=Opinion\">Briggs v. State<\/a>, 2017 Tex. App. LEXIS 1947 (Tex. App. \u2014 Corpus Christi &#8211; Edinburg March 9, 2017).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant was stopped and arrested in a \u201chigh crime\u201d area [which apparently didn\u2019t include stripping cars]. The area was partly residential and other cars were parked on the street, too. That alone didn\u2019t make it reasonable to have to impound &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26188\">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":[23,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ineffective-assistance","category-inventory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26188","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=26188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26189,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26188\/revisions\/26189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}