{"id":52446,"date":"2022-05-27T09:56:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=52446"},"modified":"2022-05-28T09:58:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T14:58:00","slug":"va-police-call-to-medical-emergency-developed-into-invalid-consent-for-drug-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=52446","title":{"rendered":"VA: Police call to medical emergency developed into invalid consent for drug search"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Police responded to a medical emergency and it turned into a narcotics investigation without reasonable suspicion. Defendant\u2019s consent when surrounded by three police officers, one of whom thought it was a narcotics stop, was involuntary and the consent is suppressed. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vacourts.gov\/opinions\/opncavwp\/0061221.pdf\">Commonwealth v. Martinez<\/a>, 2022 Va. App. LEXIS 185 (May 24, 2022) (unpublished)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When a motion to suppress is filed in Pennsylvania, the state carries the burden of going forward. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-E03003-21o%20-%20105155511186679719.pdf?cb=1\">Commonwealth v. Anderson<\/a>, 2022 PA Super 95, 2022 Pa. Super. LEXIS 230 (May 25, 2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officers were investigating child endangerment, and the encounter with defendant was a seizure and it was reasonable. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iowacourts.gov\/courtcases\/14647\/embed\/CourtAppealsOpinion\">State v. Torres<\/a>, 2022 Iowa App. LEXIS 416 (May 25, 2022).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trial court erred in suppressing because the officer didn\u2019t testify to being more trained on the smell of marijuana. <a href=\"https:\/\/efast.gaappeals.us\/download?filingId=3ad0a38f-61cc-437e-9a8d-5e47de3b498e\">State v. Mathews<\/a>, 2022 Ga. App. LEXIS 257 (May 25, 2022);* <a href=\"https:\/\/efast.gaappeals.us\/download?filingId=bce2cc26-89d2-48bb-bb04-0719986f294d\">State v. Johnson<\/a>, 2022 Ga. App. LEXIS 254 (May 25, 2022).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police responded to a medical emergency and it turned into a narcotics investigation without reasonable suspicion. Defendant\u2019s consent when surrounded by three police officers, one of whom thought it was a narcotics stop, was involuntary and the consent is suppressed. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=52446\">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":[66,24,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-burden-of-proof","category-consent","category-probable-cause"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52446","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=52446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52447,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52446\/revisions\/52447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}