{"id":52095,"date":"2022-04-10T12:34:59","date_gmt":"2022-04-10T17:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=52095"},"modified":"2022-04-10T12:34:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T17:34:59","slug":"ca4-the-fact-a-traffic-stop-could-have-been-more-efficient-doesnt-mean-it-was-otherwise-unreasonable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=52095","title":{"rendered":"CA4: The fact a traffic stop could have been more efficient doesn&#8217;t mean it was otherwise unreasonable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cIn sum, though the stop could have been shorter (and begun more efficiently), it wasn&#8217;t impermissibly prolonged. Marcel and Haigler&#8217;s actions were reasonably related to investigating an expired license plate. And this basis for the stop quickly mushroomed into other inquiries that each took time. Though Marcel at first waited for Haigler to check Perez&#8217;s license, the stop also involved a fictitious tag. After Haigler gave him Perez&#8217;s license, Marcel continued investigating why the license wasn&#8217;t \u2018good\u2019 on his laptop before turning to an investigation of the tag.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ca4.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/204285.P.pdf\">United States v. Perez<\/a>, 2022 U.S. App. LEXIS 9405 (4th Cir. Apr. 7, 2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The search warrant for the burner phone records here didn\u2019t provide subscriber information, but the text messages were linked to defendant. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.nh.gov\/sites\/g\/files\/ehbemt471\/files\/documents\/2022-04\/2022024mackenzie.pdf\">State v. Mackenzie<\/a>, 2022 N.H. LEXIS 37 (Apr. 8, 2022).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An alleged search warrant defect only makes a judgment voidable, not void. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tncourts.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/debow_billy_gene-_filed_opn.pdf\">Debow v. State<\/a>, 2022 Tenn. Crim. App. LEXIS 158 (Apr. 8, 2022).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn sum, though the stop could have been shorter (and begun more efficiently), it wasn&#8217;t impermissibly prolonged. Marcel and Haigler&#8217;s actions were reasonably related to investigating an expired license plate. And this basis for the stop quickly mushroomed into other &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=52095\">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":[5,35,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cell-phones","category-reasonable-suspicion","category-reasonableness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52095","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=52095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52096,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52095\/revisions\/52096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}