{"id":31132,"date":"2018-01-03T07:25:50","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T12:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=31132"},"modified":"2018-01-03T07:31:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T12:31:49","slug":"ca5-forgoing-license-check-not-unreasonable-where-investigation-is-proceeding-apace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=31132","title":{"rendered":"CA5: Forgoing license check not unreasonable under <em>Rodriguez<\/em> where investigation is proceeding apace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBurcham&#8217;s argument based on Rodriguez v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 1609 (2015), is unavailing. Rodriguez is distinguishable; the district court did not err in finding that Jenkins&#8217;s decision to extend the stop was justified by additional reasonable suspicion developed from Burcham&#8217;s responses to traffic-related questions. See United States v. Brigham, 382 F.3d 500, 508-09 (5th Cir. 2004) (en banc). [\u00b6] Jenkins also did not violate Rodriguez by forgoing a check on Burcham&#8217;s driver&#8217;s license and vehicle registration. See Brigham, 382 F.3d at 511. Nothing in Rodriguez requires an officer to perform such checks; the Supreme Court merely recognized that the Fourth Amendment tolerated the checks as incident to an officer&#8217;s traffic mission. See Rodriguez, 135 S.Ct. at 1614-15.\u201d Defendant validly consented to a search. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca5.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/unpub\/17\/17-30354.0.pdf\">United States v. Burcham<\/a>, 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 21 (5th Cir. Jan. 2, 2018).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBurcham&#8217;s argument based on Rodriguez v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 1609 (2015), is unavailing. Rodriguez is distinguishable; the district court did not err in finding that Jenkins&#8217;s decision to extend the stop was justified by additional reasonable suspicion developed from &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=31132\">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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reasonable-expectation-of-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31132","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=31132"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31137,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31132\/revisions\/31137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}