{"id":43485,"date":"2020-05-01T09:08:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T14:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=43485"},"modified":"2020-05-01T16:54:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T21:54:28","slug":"mo-radio-report-of-def-being-potentially-armed-and-dangerous-plus-unusually-cluttered-car-justified-protective-weapons-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=43485","title":{"rendered":"MO: Radio report of def being potentially armed and dangerous plus unusually cluttered car justified protective weapons search"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Defendant was stopped for expired tags. The officer noticed the inside of the vehicle was unusually cluttered. He got the DL and went back to his patrol car to call it in. \u201cAfter the report came back that Lindsay was classified as a \u2018Caution 1\u2019 which Officer Zaerr understood to mean that Lindsay was known to be armed and dangerous, Officer Zaerr \u2018started recalling all the clutter he had inside of his truck and actually on the bed of the truck\u2019 and the \u2018safety hazard for [him] not being able to see what&#8217;s inside the vehicle, if there&#8217;s any weapons \u2026\u2019 Officer Zaerr testified that while he did not see any contraband, weapons, or evidence of any illegal activity inside the vehicle, he did not feel safe in not being able to see what was actually there.\u201d There were sufficient grounds for a protective weapons search under Michigan v. Long. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.mo.gov\/file.jsp?id=155517\">State v. Lindsay<\/a>, 2020 Mo. App. LEXIS 548 (Apr. 28, 2020).<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant was stopped for expired tags. The officer noticed the inside of the vehicle was unusually cluttered. He got the DL and went back to his patrol car to call it in. \u201cAfter the report came back that Lindsay was &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=43485\">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":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-protective-sweep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43485","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=43485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43504,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43485\/revisions\/43504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}