{"id":54796,"date":"2023-04-29T15:20:17","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T20:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=54796"},"modified":"2023-04-29T15:20:17","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T20:20:17","slug":"ca8-merely-pointing-a-taser-not-a-seizure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=54796","title":{"rendered":"CA8: Merely pointing a Taser not a seizure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pointing a Taser at plaintiff was not a seizure. Pollreis v. Marzolf, 2023 U.S. App. LEXIS 10269 (8th Cir. Apr. 27, 2023).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even if possession of a firearm in a concealed carry state was not unlawful, smoking marijuana with a gun is. The stop was justified. United States v. Thompson, No. 22-173, 2023 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 73263 (E.D. La. Apr. 27, 2023).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Denial of ownership or leasehold in storage unit means no possessory interest or reasonable expectation of privacy. United States v. Jackson, 2023 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 73330 (W.D. La. Mar. 21, 2023).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was no reasonable expectation of privacy in the abandoned vehicle, so defense counsel wasn\u2019t ineffective for not challenging its search. United States v. Gravette, 2023 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 73532 (W.D. Va. Apr. 27, 2023).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pointing a Taser at plaintiff was not a seizure. Pollreis v. Marzolf, 2023 U.S. App. LEXIS 10269 (8th Cir. Apr. 27, 2023). Even if possession of a firearm in a concealed carry state was not unlawful, smoking marijuana with a &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=54796\">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":[48,52,18,35,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-excessive-force","category-reasonable-expectation-of-privacy","category-reasonable-suspicion","category-seizure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54796","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=54796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54797,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54796\/revisions\/54797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}