{"id":63300,"date":"2026-02-24T22:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T03:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63300"},"modified":"2026-02-24T22:58:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T03:58:33","slug":"d-n-j-one-without-a-dl-can-still-have-standing-in-the-car-hes-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63300","title":{"rendered":"D.N.J.: One without a DL can still have standing in the car he&#8217;s driving"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Defendant was driving a borrowed car without a valid DL. He still has standing, and that\u2019s not conditioned on a driver\u2019s license. United States v. Huggins, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 34758 (D.N.J. Feb. 20, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant\u2019s vehicle was parked unlocked and with the keys inside. It was \u201creadily mobile\u201d for the automobile exception. State v. Medina, 2026 ND 45 (Feb. 19, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officers had probable cause for the automobile exception based on information defendant had 10,000 fentanyl pills in his car. United States v. Siber\u00f3n-Flusa, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 35172 (D.P.R. Feb. 12, 2026).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant was driving a borrowed car without a valid DL. He still has standing, and that\u2019s not conditioned on a driver\u2019s license. United States v. Huggins, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 34758 (D.N.J. Feb. 20, 2026). Defendant\u2019s vehicle was parked unlocked &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63300\">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":[36,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile-exception","category-standing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63300","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=63300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63302,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63300\/revisions\/63302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}