{"id":50831,"date":"2021-12-20T06:53:42","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T11:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=50831"},"modified":"2021-12-20T06:53:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T11:53:42","slug":"ca7-en-banc-questions-about-travel-plans-during-traffic-stop-not-unreasonable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=50831","title":{"rendered":"CA7 (en banc): Questions about travel plans during traffic stop not unreasonable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Resolving an apparent conflict between Rodriguez and pre-Rodriguez case law, the officer\u2019s normal inquiries here about defendant\u2019s travel plans were legitimate and produced answers that he could legitimately doubt. Defendant volunteered seven states other than where the stop occurred, and he got more and more nervous in the minutes that followed. That led to reasonable suspicion for a dog sniff. <a href=\"http:\/\/media.ca7.uscourts.gov\/cgi-bin\/rssExec.pl?Submit=Display&amp;Path=Y2021\/D12-17\/C:20-2105:J:St__Eve:aut:T:fnOp:N:2807811:S:0\">United States v. Cole<\/a>, 2021 U.S. App. LEXIS 37398 (7th Cir. Dec. 17, 2021) (en banc (7-3), dissent <a href=\"http:\/\/media.ca7.uscourts.gov\/cgi-bin\/rssExec.pl?Submit=Display&amp;Path=Y2021\/D12-17\/C:20-2105:J:Hamilton:dis:T:fnOp:N:2807811:S:0 dissent\">here<\/a>). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ordering occupants out of the car during a simple traffic stop requires some level of reasonable suspicion or need for officer safety in Pennsylvania. Here, nothing had been established by the time the occupants were out of the car and the stop escalated as more was learned. As to the passenger, the pill bottle ultimately in the driver\u2019s lap couldn\u2019t be connected to him. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-A24005-21o%20-%20104988008154895223.pdf?cb=1\">Commonwealth v. Singletary<\/a>, 2021 PA Super 251, 2021 Pa. Super. LEXIS 730 (Dec. 17, 2021).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resolving an apparent conflict between Rodriguez and pre-Rodriguez case law, the officer\u2019s normal inquiries here about defendant\u2019s travel plans were legitimate and produced answers that he could legitimately doubt. Defendant volunteered seven states other than where the stop occurred, and &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=50831\">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":[35,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reasonable-suspicion","category-reasonableness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50831","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=50831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50832,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50831\/revisions\/50832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}