{"id":26194,"date":"2017-03-11T10:22:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T15:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26194"},"modified":"2017-03-12T09:12:53","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T14:12:53","slug":"pa-sw-for-house-permitted-search-of-guests-pants-that-were-on-floor-when-the-police-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26194","title":{"rendered":"PA: SW for house permitted search of guest&#8217;s pants that were on floor when the police arrived"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police came with a drug search warrant into the house of another where defendant was sleeping with a woman, and told him to get up. He reached for his nearby pants, and they took them and searched them finding his ID, money, and drugs. The police could search the pants because he wasn\u2019t wearing them at the time they entered. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-A04002-17o%20-%2010302290216349818.pdf?cb=1\">Commonwealth v. Petty<\/a>, 2017 PA Super 63, 2017 Pa. Super. LEXIS 163 (March 10, 2017).<\/p>\n<p>Defendant\u2019s wife called the police to tell him that he\u2019d be going out with a gun. They stopped him at the gas station near his house and frisked him for the weapon, but did not find it. They put him in a patrol car. She observed this from the house and called the police and said that the gun was hidden in his underwear. They got him out and searched again finding the gun in his groin area. The court finds probable cause. Therefore, the question of whether reasonable suspicion dissipated with the first frisk doesn\u2019t have to be decided. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/courts\/docs\/sjc\/reporter-of-decisions\/new-opinions\/15p1219.pdf\">Commonwealth v. Abdul-Alim<\/a>, 2017 Mass. App. LEXIS 27 (March 9, 2017).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police came with a drug search warrant into the house of another where defendant was sleeping with a woman, and told him to get up. He reached for his nearby pants, and they took them and searched them finding his &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26194\">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":[44,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-informant-hearsay","category-scope-of-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26194","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=26194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26197,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26194\/revisions\/26197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}