{"id":27084,"date":"2017-05-08T00:00:33","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T05:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=27084"},"modified":"2017-05-07T13:51:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-07T18:51:29","slug":"ia-doesnt-recognize-officers-mistake-of-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=27084","title":{"rendered":"IA doesn&#8217;t recognize officer&#8217;s mistake of law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant was stopped in what was thought to be a county park after midnight, but there was no proof that the park was properly established or had closing hours. Assuming that the officer committed a mistake of law, Iowa does not recognize a mistake of law under the state constitution, and the case is remanded. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iowacourts.gov\/About_the_Courts\/Court_of_Appeals\/Court_of_Appeals_Opinions\/Recent_Opinions\/20170503\/16-0267.pdf\">State v. Scheffert<\/a>, 2017 Iowa App. LEXIS 423 (May 3, 2017).<\/p>\n<p>No exigent circumstances justified the warrantless search of defendant\u2019s car after he was led away in handcuffs. A paper inside the console was not in plain view. United States v. Lopes, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 67449 (D. Mass. May 3, 2017).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant was stopped in what was thought to be a county park after midnight, but there was no proof that the park was properly established or had closing hours. Assuming that the officer committed a mistake of law, Iowa does &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=27084\">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":[3,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emergency-exigency","category-reasonableness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27084","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=27084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27085,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27084\/revisions\/27085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}