{"id":6702,"date":"2012-07-25T15:51:10","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T00:04:59","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T15:03:36","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6702","title":{"rendered":"CA4: A protective weapons search under <em>Michigan v. Long<\/em> is an exception to <em>Gant<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant\u2019s stop for a taillight being out was cause for the stop, defendant\u2019s inability to answer basic questions about what he was doing and where he was going in a high crime area, his criminal record, and his generally matching the description of a robber became reasonable suspicion. A protective weapons search under <a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=4292797909531857390&amp;q=michigan+v.+long&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=2,11\">Michigan v. Long<\/a> is an exception to <a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=4755468061403609564&amp;q=arizona+v.+gant&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=1002\">Gant<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/pacer.ca4.uscourts.gov\/opinion.pdf\/114681.U.pdf\">United States v. Lewis<\/a>, 466 Fed. Appx. 170 (4th Cir. 2012) (unpublished)*:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[T]the officer reasonably believed that Lewis could be armed and dangerous. Moreover, Lewis&#8217; lack of restraint and close proximity to the driver&#8217;s side door permit the conclusion that Lewis could access any weapons within the vehicle. See Long, 463 U.S. at 1051-52; United States v. Elston, 479 F.3d 314, 320 (4th Cir. 2007). <\/p>\n<p>&#8230; [T]he limited restraint placed on Lewis prior to the search did not amount to a formal arrest that would trigger Gant&#8217;s protection.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6702\">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-6702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6702","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=6702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}