{"id":6970,"date":"2012-07-25T15:33:18","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T10:18:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T10:17:04","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6970","title":{"rendered":"MA: Defendant’s threat to shoot a witness to a crime was PC to search his car for a weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Defendant was accused of twice getting out of his car and battering his girlfriend. When police arrived, they had a reliable report that defendant might be armed because they threatened to shoot a bystander witness, and that justified a search of his car under the automobile exception. Commonwealth v. Gouse<\/a>, 461 Mass. 787, 965 N.E.2d 774 (2012).*<\/p>\n

Defendant\u2019s driving back and forth three times in five minutes in front of a construction site at 1 a.m. where anhydrous ammonia was stored was reasonable suspicion. \u201cNo one was supposed to be at the construction site at that hour. Officers can consider the lateness of the hour in determining whether criminal activity was afoot.\u201d State v. Morgan<\/a>, 366 S.W.3d 565 (Mo. App. 2012).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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