{"id":52766,"date":"2022-07-09T06:13:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T11:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=52766"},"modified":"2022-07-11T06:21:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T11:21:18","slug":"ca4-asking-motorist-whether-he-is-armed-relates-to-officer-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=52766","title":{"rendered":"CA4: Asking motorist whether he is armed relates to officer safety"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Asking motorist whether he is armed relates to officer safety, and it is reasonable during a stop. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ca4.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/214642.U.pdf\">United States v. Racer<\/a>, 2022 U.S. App. LEXIS 18664 (4th Cir. July 7, 2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dog sniff outside an apartment door didn\u2019t violate any reasonable expectation of privacy. That\u2019s the weight of authority. United States v. Nelson, 2022 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 119760 (D. Md. July 6, 2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The traffic statute here is unambiguous, and the officer\u2019s interpretation is not a reasonable mistake under Heien, also looking to Justice Kagan\u2019s concurrence in Heien. United States v. Potter, 2022 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 120380 (D.N.H. July 8, 2022)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asking motorist whether he is armed relates to officer safety, and it is reasonable during a stop. United States v. Racer, 2022 U.S. App. LEXIS 18664 (4th Cir. July 7, 2022). Dog sniff outside an apartment door didn\u2019t violate any &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=52766\">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":[19,27,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curtilage","category-dog-sniff","category-reasonableness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52766","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=52766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52767,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52766\/revisions\/52767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}