{"id":47537,"date":"2021-03-04T09:29:24","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T14:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=47537"},"modified":"2021-03-04T09:31:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T14:31:00","slug":"ca10-officers-questions-after-completion-of-stop-extended-it-by-consent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=47537","title":{"rendered":"CA10: Officer&#8217;s questions after completion of stop extended it by consent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The traffic stop evolved into reasonable suspicion of drug trafficking and then a drug dog could be used on the vehicle. After completing the stop, \u201cAs Mercado-Gracia walked back to his vehicle, however, Officer Wood invoked \u2018the old highway patrol \u201ctwo-step\u201d\u2019\u201d of asking more questions. This was consent that led to reasonable suspicion because defendant became increasingly and obviously nervous. The questions followed up on nonsensical answers during the stop. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ca10.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/19\/19-2153.pdf\">United States v. Mercado-Gracia<\/a>, 2021 U.S. App. LEXIS 6034 (10th Cir. Mar. 2, 2021).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was reasonable suspicion for pulling over defendant\u2019s PT Cruiser as being involved in a recent shooting incident. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tncourts.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/eli_kea_cca_opinion.pdf\">State v. Kea<\/a>, 2021 Tenn. Crim. App. LEXIS 72 (Mar. 2, 2021).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The traffic stop evolved into reasonable suspicion of drug trafficking and then a drug dog could be used on the vehicle. After completing the stop, \u201cAs Mercado-Gracia walked back to his vehicle, however, Officer Wood invoked \u2018the old highway patrol &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=47537\">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":[27,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dog-sniff","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47537","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=47537"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47539,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47537\/revisions\/47539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}