{"id":56918,"date":"2024-01-24T08:12:21","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T13:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=56918"},"modified":"2024-01-24T08:36:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T13:36:44","slug":"ca4-another-search-surveillance-cameras-likely-presence-of-weapons-and-others-justified-protective-sweep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=56918","title":{"rendered":"CA4:  Another search, surveillance cameras, likely presence of weapons and other persons justified protective sweep"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Another search the day before, surveillance cameras, and the likely presence of weapons and others justified this protective sweep. \u201cThe officers knew, for example, they were about to arrest a substantial drug supplier, and he had a known connection to firearms and a network of drug distributors and compatriots. Taken together with the security cameras and the presence of the surprise occupant \u2014 as the district court recognized \u2014 the circumstances justified a reasonably prudent officer in conducting a protective sweep of the Residence to ensure the safety of himself and others. Notably, the officers had ample probable cause and could readily have secured a search warrant for the Reagan Residence earlier, when they obtained the arrest warrant for Everett. But to deprive the officers of the right to conduct a protective sweep, in the circumstances existing at the Residence on the evening of July 17, 2018, would undermine officer safety. This appellate contention of Everett&#8217;s will therefore be rejected.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ca4.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/224536.p.pdf\">United States v. Everett<\/a>, 2024 U.S. App. LEXIS 1497 (4th Cir. Jan. 23, 2024). [If this had been unpublished, it would have been about \u00bcth as long. In addition, do ubiquitous Ring and Google doorbell cams and the like constitute &#8220;surveillance cameras&#8221;?] <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The officer stopping defendant had reasonable suspicion to extend the stop for various circumstances including a full gas can inside the car that suggested a hidden compartment [without explaining]. United States v. Smart, 2024 U.S. App. LEXIS 1394 (4th Cir. Jan. 22, 2024).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another search the day before, surveillance cameras, and the likely presence of weapons and others justified this protective sweep. \u201cThe officers knew, for example, they were about to arrest a substantial drug supplier, and he had a known connection to &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=56918\">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":[22,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-protective-sweep","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56918","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=56918"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56922,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56918\/revisions\/56922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}