{"id":6895,"date":"2012-07-25T12:43:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T08:44:54","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T08:44:54","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6895","title":{"rendered":"CO declines to impose RS standard on use of a drug dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The state constitution does not impose a reasonable suspicion standard before a drug dog can be used on a vehicle. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.state.co.us\/userfiles\/file\/Court_Probation\/Supreme_Court\/Opinions\/2011\/11SA234.pdf\">People v. Esparza<\/a>, 2012 CO 22, 272 P.3d 367 (Colo. 2012).<\/p>\n<p>Sobriety roadblock was set up by a supervisory officer two days earlier by surveying in the area. The fact only two officers manned the roadblock was not an issue to make it unreasonable. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lexisone.com\/lx1\/caselaw\/freecaselaw?searchType=citation&amp;fclSearch=2012+Ga.+App.+LEXIS+337+&amp;action=FCLSearchCaseByCitation&amp;pageLimit=10&amp;format=CITE&amp;pageNumber=1&amp;sourceID=&amp;citation=2012+Ga.+App.+LEXIS+337+&amp;searchTerm=\">State v. Brown<\/a>, 315 Ga. App. 154 726 S.E.2d 654 (2012).*<\/p>\n<p>The district court didn\u2019t find probable cause for arrest, but the appellate court does, so the false arrest claim is foreclosed. \u201cIn this case there was certainly arguable probable cause. The undisputed evidence showed that within seven minutes of being informed of a possible break-in and assault, Turner spotted Fleming in an alleyway approximately one-half block from the crime scene. Fleming was the only person in the area and he substantially matched the description of the intruder that one of the victims had given to Turner\u2014he was wearing a baseball cap, t-shirt, and camouflage cargo shorts. From this evidence, a police officer could have reasonably, if mistakenly, believed that probable cause existed to arrest Fleming. This is true even if Haleigh had described Turner&#8217;s t-shirt as \u2018light-colored\u2019 because witnesses often have minor details incorrect.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca7.uscourts.gov\/fdocs\/docs.fwx?submit=showbr&amp;shofile=11-2170_002.pdf\">Fleming v. Livingston County<\/a>, 674 F.3d 874 (7th Cir. 2012).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6895\">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-6895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6895","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=6895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}