{"id":45783,"date":"2020-10-16T03:54:52","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T08:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=45783"},"modified":"2020-10-16T04:08:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T09:08:31","slug":"wy-stop-was-factually-justified-even-if-pretextual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=45783","title":{"rendered":"WY: Stop was factually justified even if pretextual"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cDespite the stop of the Tacoma being pretextual due to information provided by Agent Ford, Trooper Hobbs based the initial traffic stop upon a personally witnessed violation of the law. Thus, [Mr. Simmons&#8217;] rights under both the Wyoming Constitution and the United States Constitution were not violated by Trooper Hobb[s&#8217;] initial stop.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/documents.courts.state.wy.us\/Opinions\/Simmons%20S-20-0083.pdf\">Simmons v. State<\/a>, 2020 Wyo. LEXIS 155 (Oct. 15, 2020) (bracketed material in original).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was probable cause for the search of defendant\u2019s vehicle under the automobile exception. <a href=\"http:\/\/media.ca1.uscourts.gov\/pdf.opinions\/19-1948P-01A.pdf\">United States v. Simpkins<\/a>, 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 32567 (1st Cir. Oct. 15, 2020).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDespite the stop of the Tacoma being pretextual due to information provided by Agent Ford, Trooper Hobbs based the initial traffic stop upon a personally witnessed violation of the law. Thus, [Mr. Simmons&#8217;] rights under both the Wyoming Constitution and &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=45783\">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-45783","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\/45783","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=45783"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45788,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45783\/revisions\/45788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}