{"id":60805,"date":"2025-04-15T07:29:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T12:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60805"},"modified":"2025-04-15T07:43:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T12:43:30","slug":"co-pc-a-gun-was-in-car-permits-search-of-trunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60805","title":{"rendered":"CO: PC a gun was in car permits search of trunk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Defendant was a suspect in a shooting incident. He was found outside a car. There was probable cause to believe the gun was inside the passenger compartment or trunk, even though the windows were down and the trunk closed when they saw him. Probable cause permits a search where the object might be. People v. Furness<\/a>, 2025 CO 16, 2025 Colo. LEXIS 235 (Apr. 14, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Defendant discovered when in prison that the dash cam was omitted from inventory. That\u2019s not going to make an ineffective assistance of counsel claim. \u201cAccordingly, the failure to file a motion to suppress the dash cam evidence does not amount to \u2018a reasonable probability the result of the trial would have been otherwise had the motion been granted\u2019 as the testimony at trial supports Appellant’s conviction establishing that he did not act in self-defense when he shot and killed D.P. in the back.\u201d State v. Morgan, 2025-Ohio-1312 (7th Dist. Apr. 7, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The City of Lansing hired tree services to trim around power lines. There was no Fourth Amendment violation from their allegedly photographing plaintiff\u2019s wife who came into her yard to yell at them about \u201cwhat the hell they were doing.\u201d She came out to into the yard on her own. Faraone v. Lansing Bd. of Water & Light, 2025 Mich. App. LEXIS 2821 (Apr. 11, 2025) (unpublished).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Defendant was a suspect in a shooting incident. He was found outside a car. There was probable cause to believe the gun was inside the passenger compartment or trunk, even though the windows were down and the trunk closed when … Continue reading →<\/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":[23,20,18,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ineffective-assistance","category-probable-cause","category-reasonable-expectation-of-privacy","category-scope-of-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60805","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=60805"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60807,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60805\/revisions\/60807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}