{"id":6582,"date":"2012-06-10T19:39:42","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T08:27:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T08:27:12","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6582","title":{"rendered":"CA11 &amp; NE: \u201c[A] traffic violation, no matter how minor, creates probable cause to stop the driver of a vehicle\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The loud thumping coming from defendant\u2019s car justified a traffic stop. \u201cA traffic stop based on an officer\u2019s incorrect but reasonable assessment of facts does not violate the Fourth Amendment\u201d provided that the \u201cmistake of fact was reasonable.\u201d United States v. Chanthasouxat, 342 F.3d 1271, 1276 (11th Cir. 2003). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca11.uscourts.gov\/unpub\/ops\/201112621.pdf\">United States v. Smalls<\/a>, 458 Fed. Appx. 788 (11th Cir. 2012) (unpublished).* [Add to that list: And when you are a felon in possession or carrying drugs in the car, don\u2019t draw attention to yourself.]<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[A] traffic violation, no matter how minor, creates probable cause to stop the driver of a vehicle,\u201d here an improper turn. <a href=\"http:\/\/supremecourt.ne.gov\/opinions\/2012\/january\/jan20\/s10-1011.pdf\">State v. Nolan<\/a>, 283 Neb. 50, 807 N.W.2d 520 (2012).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6582\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6582","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}