{"id":42138,"date":"2020-02-03T00:00:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T05:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=42138"},"modified":"2020-02-02T20:33:45","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T01:33:45","slug":"ks-defs-stop-when-she-was-unconscious-in-a-car-was-valid-as-a-public-safety-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=42138","title":{"rendered":"KS: Def&#8217;s stop when she was unconscious in a car was valid as a public safety stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant was unconscious in a car slumped over at the wheel at 2 am, unresponsive to a spotlight on her. This was valid as a public safety stop. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kscourts.org\/Cases-Opinions\/Opinions\/Published\/State-v-McKenna\">State v. McKenna<\/a>, 2020 Kan. App. LEXIS 7 (Jan. 31, 2020).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA court will not find that defense counsel was ineffective for failing to file a meritless motion to suppress.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/courts.illinois.gov\/Opinions\/AppellateCourt\/2020\/5thDistrict\/5170068.pdf\">People v. McIntosh<\/a>, 2020 IL App (5th) 170068, 2020 Ill. App. LEXIS 47 (Jan. 30, 2020).<\/p>\n<p>This was an immigration checkpoint, and the presence of a drug dog didn\u2019t make it purely criminal enforcement. The dog didn\u2019t delay the process at all. United States v. Yasin, 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 3062 (5th Cir. Jan. 30, 2020).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant was unconscious in a car slumped over at the wheel at 2 am, unresponsive to a spotlight on her. This was valid as a public safety stop. State v. McKenna, 2020 Kan. App. LEXIS 7 (Jan. 31, 2020). \u201cA &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=42138\">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":[74,94,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-caretaking-function","category-immigration-checkpoints","category-ineffective-assistance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42138","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=42138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42139,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42138\/revisions\/42139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}