{"id":41591,"date":"2020-01-02T00:00:41","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T05:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=41591"},"modified":"2020-01-02T07:12:32","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T12:12:32","slug":"sc-automobile-exception-search-doesnt-have-to-happen-right-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=41591","title":{"rendered":"SC: Automobile exception search doesn&#8217;t have to happen right away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant\u2019s car was well enough connected to him and the crime that the police had probable cause for a search under the automobile exception. Moreover, there is no constitutional requirement that the vehicle be searched immediately under the automobile exception. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sccourts.org\/opinions\/HTMLFiles\/COA\/5702.pdf\">State v. Bonilla<\/a>, 2019 S.C. App. LEXIS 191 (Dec. 31, 2019). [This has limits; e.g., the search cannot be delayed until the probable cause is stale or dissipates, but that&#8217;s not the case here.]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough Potts did not explicitly argue that the traffic stop was pretextual below, the Superior Court correctly noted that an officer&#8217;s subjective intentions play no role in a Fourth Amendment analysis.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/courts.delaware.gov\/Opinions\/Download.aspx?id=299760\">Potts v. State<\/a>, 2019 Del. LEXIS 566 (Dec. 30, 2019).*<\/p>\n<p>Playpen warrant sustained. Discovery into details that could compromise future operations was properly denied. United States v. Stamper, 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 38711 (6th Cir. Dec. 30, 2019).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant\u2019s car was well enough connected to him and the crime that the police had probable cause for a search under the automobile exception. Moreover, there is no constitutional requirement that the vehicle be searched immediately under the automobile exception. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=41591\">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":[36,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile-exception","category-pretext"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41591","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=41591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41599,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41591\/revisions\/41599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}