{"id":33261,"date":"2018-06-03T08:50:36","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T13:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=33261"},"modified":"2018-06-03T08:50:36","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T13:50:36","slug":"ak-defs-admission-he-had-a-knife-during-traffic-stop-justified-a-further-patdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=33261","title":{"rendered":"AK: Def&#8217;s admission he had a knife during traffic stop justified a further patdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant was stopped for having studded tires after May 1st, and another warrant surfaced when checking on him. Despite the officer\u2019s discretion to issue a summons or arrest, he still had the authority to conduct a patdown if there was reasonable suspicion. Here, defendant admitted having a knife on him [it is, after all Alaska]. The search here is not limited by Knowles. <a href=\"https:\/\/public.courts.alaska.gov\/web\/appellate\/opinions\/ap-2603.pdf\">McGuire v. State<\/a>, 2018 Alas. App. LEXIS 111 (June 1, 2018).<\/p>\n<p>Defendant wasn\u2019t yet seized when he was asked about a blood test. There was reasonable suspicion for the field sobriety test. <a href=\"https:\/\/public.courts.alaska.gov\/web\/appellate\/opinions\/ap-2601.pdf\">Hurlburt v. State<\/a>, 2018 Alas. App. LEXIS 110 (June 1, 2018).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant was stopped for having studded tires after May 1st, and another warrant surfaced when checking on him. Despite the officer\u2019s discretion to issue a summons or arrest, he still had the authority to conduct a patdown if there was &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=33261\">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":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33261","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=33261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33262,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33261\/revisions\/33262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}