{"id":29707,"date":"2017-10-14T09:32:45","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T14:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=29707"},"modified":"2017-10-14T09:46:57","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T14:46:57","slug":"oh2-somebody-leaning-in-car-window-then-leaving-when-police-approach-is-not-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=29707","title":{"rendered":"OH2: Somebody leaning in car window then leaving when police approach is not PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody leaning in the car window to talk to defendant then walking away as police approached is not probable cause to believe a drug deal just went down. Suppression motion should have been granted. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourt.ohio.gov\/rod\/docs\/pdf\/1\/2017\/2017-Ohio-8141.pdf\">State v. Ward<\/a>, 2017-Ohio-8141, 2017 Ohio App. LEXIS 4512 (2d Dist. Oct. 11, 2017).<\/p>\n<p>Trial court\u2019s credibility determination that the officers saw marijuana in the vehicle is entitled to deference. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourt.ohio.gov\/rod\/docs\/pdf\/1\/2017\/2017-Ohio-8140.pdf\">State v. Hamilton<\/a>, 2017-Ohio-8140, 2017 Ohio App. LEXIS 4513 (1st Dist. Oct. 11, 2017).*<\/p>\n<p>The trial court did not err denying defendant&#8217;s motion to suppress because exigent circumstances justified the warrantless blood draw from defendant. The blood draw arose from a serious automobile accident, the officer was delayed in pursuing the usual procedures for obtaining a valid blood draw by the need to investigate the accident, and development of suspicion that alcohol was involved may have been delayed by defendant&#8217;s act of concealing beer cans. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.state.va.us\/opinions\/opncavwp\/0052173.pdf\">Aponte v. Commonwealth<\/a>, 2017 Va. App. LEXIS 250 (Oct. 10, 2017).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody leaning in the car window to talk to defendant then walking away as police approached is not probable cause to believe a drug deal just went down. Suppression motion should have been granted. State v. Ward, 2017-Ohio-8141, 2017 Ohio &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=29707\">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":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-probable-cause"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29707","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=29707"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29712,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29707\/revisions\/29712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}