{"id":53492,"date":"2022-11-04T06:52:12","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T11:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=53492"},"modified":"2022-11-04T07:32:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T12:32:59","slug":"ga-consent-to-search-backpack-included-laptop-inside-when-def-didnt-object","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=53492","title":{"rendered":"GA: Consent to search backpack included laptop inside when def didn&#8217;t object"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Defendant clearly consented to a search of his backpack. When the officer encountered his laptop and opened it to turn it on, defendant never objected. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gasupreme.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/s22a0498_sub.pdf\">Winslow v. State<\/a>, 2022 Ga. LEXIS 297 (Nov. 2, 2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The underlying facts for reasonable suspicion were found by the District Court and are not clearly erroneous. United States v. James, 2022 U.S. App. LEXIS 30147 (11th Cir. Oct. 31, 2022).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant\u2019s stop yielded reasonable suspicion because his information didn\u2019t make much sense, and he was not on a direct route from where he said he was going to but on a drug corridor, not to mention all the retaped boxes of electronic goods in the back seat. United States v. Latorre-Cacho, 2022 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 197056 (M.D. Pa. Oct. 28, 2022).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The search of the car was justified by the automobile exception, and it was for marijuana, and that allows search wherever in the car it might be. United States v. Galtney, 2022 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 197210 (D. Minn. Oct. 31, 2022).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant clearly consented to a search of his backpack. When the officer encountered his laptop and opened it to turn it on, defendant never objected. Winslow v. State, 2022 Ga. LEXIS 297 (Nov. 2, 2022). The underlying facts for reasonable &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=53492\">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":[36,12,24,35,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile-exception","category-computer-searches","category-consent","category-reasonable-suspicion","category-standards-of-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53492","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=53492"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53494,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53492\/revisions\/53494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}