{"id":60635,"date":"2025-03-30T07:40:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60635"},"modified":"2025-03-30T08:41:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T13:41:44","slug":"w-d-la-request-for-consent-during-stop-came-after-rs-developed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60635","title":{"rendered":"W.D.La.: Request for consent during stop came after RS developed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Defendant\u2019s traffic stop was reasonable because of a cracked windshield on his truck, and a question about consent to search near the end of the ticket writing process didn\u2019t unlawfully extend it. United States v. Calderon, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 58610 (W.D. La. Feb. 24, 2025),* adopted, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 56756 W.D. La. Mar. 26, 2025)*:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Even assuming Deputy Johnson had extended the duration of the traffic stop, however, he did so only after he developed reasonable suspicion to believe that Calderon may have been engaged in other criminal activity. Like the encounter itself, his suspicions developed dynamically:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Calderon made odd, evasive, or inconsistent statements regarding basic information like the load he was hauling and the route he was traveling;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Calderon&#8217;s logbook was not updated (for that day);<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Calderon had a prior (albeit 23-year-old) drug trafficking conviction, which he had earlier denied;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>after Calderon consented to the search, Deputy Johnson found a handwritten prayer to Santa Muerte, whom Mexican cartel members and drug traffickers claim is a &#8220;patron saint&#8221;; and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the canine alerted to Calderon&#8217;s trailer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant\u2019s traffic stop was reasonable because of a cracked windshield on his truck, and a question about consent to search near the end of the ticket writing process didn\u2019t unlawfully extend it. United States v. Calderon, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60635\">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":[27,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dog-sniff","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60635","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=60635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60636,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60635\/revisions\/60636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}