{"id":26919,"date":"2017-04-25T00:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T05:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26919"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:58:26","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:58:26","slug":"m-d-la-a-couple-of-pills-in-the-car-not-easily-identifiable-as-controlled-substances-didnt-justify-a-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26919","title":{"rendered":"M.D.La.: A couple of pills in the car not easily identifiable as controlled substances didn’t justify a search"},"content":{"rendered":"

Defendant\u2019s frisk was justified by reasonable suspicion. The search of his person, however, was not justified: Some pills in the car that weren\u2019t easily identified as controlled substances does not mean that defendant was committing a crime. United States v. Richardson, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 59403 (M.D. La. April 18, 2017).<\/p>\n

Any motion to suppress would have been meritless, so defendant did not receive IAC. United States v. Williams, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 58801 (N.D. Ind. April 17, 2017).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Defendant\u2019s frisk was justified by reasonable suspicion. The search of his person, however, was not justified: Some pills in the car that weren\u2019t easily identified as controlled substances does not mean that defendant was committing a crime. United States v. … Continue reading →<\/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":[23,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ineffective-assistance","category-probable-cause"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26919","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=26919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26920,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26919\/revisions\/26920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}