{"id":63368,"date":"2026-02-28T12:28:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T17:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63368"},"modified":"2026-02-28T12:28:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T17:28:05","slug":"dc-police-had-probable-cause-to-believe-that-mr-turners-bullet-riddled-car-might-contain-bullet-fragments-from-the-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63368","title":{"rendered":"DC: &#8220;police had probable cause to believe that Mr. Turner&#8217;s bullet-riddled car might contain bullet fragments from the shooting&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cThere can be little question that the police had probable cause to believe that Mr. Turner&#8217;s car contained evidence of a crime. Four cars parked along the street, including Mr. Turner&#8217;s Lexus, were struck by bullets in a drive-by shooting. At the very least, police had probable cause to believe that Mr. Turner&#8217;s bullet-riddled car might contain bullet fragments from the shooting. During oral argument, Mr. Turner&#8217;s counsel agreed that there likely was probable cause to believe that the car contained evidence of the shooting in the form of \u2018ballistics evidence.\u2019 This alone satisfies the automobile exception to the Fourth Amendment&#8217;s warrant requirement.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dccourts.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-02\/Jackson%20v%20US%2023-CF-1077.pdf\">Jennings v. United States<\/a>, 2026 D.C. App. LEXIS 75 (Feb. 26, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A named-citizen complaint to 911 reported that two men leaving the county fairgrounds on dirtbikes were driving drunk. An officer stopped them. The tip was determined to be reliable enough. People v. Anderson, 2026 Mich. App. LEXIS 1661 (Feb. 25, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere can be little question that the police had probable cause to believe that Mr. Turner&#8217;s car contained evidence of a crime. Four cars parked along the street, including Mr. Turner&#8217;s Lexus, were struck by bullets in a drive-by shooting. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63368\">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":[44,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-informant-hearsay","category-probable-cause"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63368","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=63368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63369,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63368\/revisions\/63369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}