{"id":43867,"date":"2020-05-26T20:37:38","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T01:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=43867"},"modified":"2020-05-27T08:38:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T13:38:20","slug":"ca11-seeing-handrolled-joint-in-hand-in-high-crime-area-was-rs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=43867","title":{"rendered":"CA11: Seeing handrolled joint in hand in high crime area was RS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cAs Officer Erik Cabrales of the Ocala Police Department and Officer Rodriguez patrolled an apartment complex known for violence and drug sales, they observed Fredericks sitting outside holding a cigarette that had been hand-rolled in brown paper. Cabrales noticed Fredericks was partially concealing the brown, hand-rolled cigarette in the palm of his left hand. So he asked Fredericks what he had in his hand, but Fredericks did not respond. Cabrales asked again, and Fredericks displayed a cigarette lighter in his other hand but continued to conceal the cigarette. The district court found after viewing body-camera video from the officers that Cabrales then told Fredericks, \u2018I see what you got in your hand, Man. I could see it from where I was at.\u2019 At this point, the officers \u2018ha[d] a reasonable, articulable suspicion that criminal activity [was] afoot,\u2019 Illinois v. Wardlow, 528 U.S. 119, 123 (2000), and could detain Fredericks to investigate.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/media.ca11.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/unpub\/files\/201913576.pdf\">United States v. Fredericks<\/a>, 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 16626 (11th Cir. May 26, 2020).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAs Officer Erik Cabrales of the Ocala Police Department and Officer Rodriguez patrolled an apartment complex known for violence and drug sales, they observed Fredericks sitting outside holding a cigarette that had been hand-rolled in brown paper. Cabrales noticed Fredericks &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=43867\">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":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43867","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=43867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43870,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43867\/revisions\/43870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}