{"id":39208,"date":"2019-08-19T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=39208"},"modified":"2019-08-19T09:00:07","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T14:00:07","slug":"ca4-defs-admission-she-had-cocaine-in-her-hair-permitted-search-incident-of-her-car-where-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=39208","title":{"rendered":"CA4: Def&#8217;s admission she had cocaine in her hair permitted search incident of her car where arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAfter finding a bag of white powder in Harrison&#8217;s hair \u2014 which she admitted to the arresting officer was cocaine \u2014 and observing a suspicious baggie and a large amount of cash in plain view, the officers had a \u2018reasonable basis\u2019 to believe they might find additional drugs in the Camry in which Harrison, an arrestee, was a passenger.\u201d Thus, the search incident exception applies. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca4.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/184214.P.pdf\">United States v. Norman<\/a>, 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 24312 (4th Cir. Aug. 15, 2019).<\/p>\n<p>The court does not need to decide whether defendant\u2019s supervised release search condition authorized this search because it was justified under the automobile exception based on the officer\u2019s observations of defendant. United States v. McCoy, 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 137657 (N.D. Cal. Aug. 14, 2019).*<\/p>\n<p>The joint motions to suppress are denied as untimely and slowing the progression of this case. United States v. F\u00cdgaro-Benjam\u00cdn, 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 139277 (D. P.R. Aug. 16, 2019).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAfter finding a bag of white powder in Harrison&#8217;s hair \u2014 which she admitted to the arresting officer was cocaine \u2014 and observing a suspicious baggie and a large amount of cash in plain view, the officers had a \u2018reasonable &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=39208\">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":[36,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile-exception","category-search-incident"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39208","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=39208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39209,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39208\/revisions\/39209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}