{"id":5516,"date":"2011-12-27T05:52:25","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T04:47:46","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T04:47:46","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5516","title":{"rendered":"CA9: Officers who targeted lawyer for drug smuggling into prison at least had qualified immunity in their snitch based case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officers using a snitch set up a sting operation to deliver meth to a lawyer. The snitch said the lawyer was smuggling drugs into prison on client visits. The lawyer\u2019s office was raided and he was arrested but not prosecuted. The officers had qualified immunity because the officers at least had probable cause based on the totality. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca9.uscourts.gov\/datastore\/opinions\/2011\/05\/05\/09-17188.pdf\">Garcia v. County of Merced<\/a>, 09-17188 (9th Cir. May 5, 2011).*<\/p>\n<p>Seeing a pistol grip sticking from defendant\u2019s waistband was reasonable suspicion for a stop at gunpoint. His name was run, and two fugitive warrants came up. The stop was valid. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fifthcircuit.org\/PDF\/OPINIONS\/PO\/2011\/F1B693CA-3AF7-468D-B97E-034016DA200A.pdf\">State v. Dickerson<\/a>, 65 So. 3d 172 (La. App. 5th Cir. 2011).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5516\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5516","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}