{"id":33305,"date":"2018-06-06T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=33305"},"modified":"2018-06-06T07:54:20","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T12:54:20","slug":"va-gun-in-plain-view-left-in-car-was-seizable-under-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=33305","title":{"rendered":"VA: Gun in plain view left in car was seizable under <em>Long<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant fled from a car, and a gun was in plain view in the car. The officer acted reasonably in searching the car to secure the firearm under Michigan v. Long [aside from abandonment of the car] because defendant could have circled back to the car and retrieved the gun. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.state.va.us\/opinions\/opncavwp\/0224171.pdf\">Moore v. Commonwealth<\/a>, 2018 Va. App. LEXIS 147 (June 5, 2018).<\/p>\n<p>Defendant was shown to have consented to the search of his cell phone. United States v. Rodriguez, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 94320 (W.D. Va. June 5, 2018).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant fled from a car, and a gun was in plain view in the car. The officer acted reasonably in searching the car to secure the firearm under Michigan v. Long [aside from abandonment of the car] because defendant could &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=33305\">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":[48,51,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-plain-view","category-protective-sweep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33305","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=33305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33306,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33305\/revisions\/33306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}