{"id":8035,"date":"2013-06-19T10:14:31","date_gmt":"2012-12-01T11:09:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-01T11:09:37","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8035","title":{"rendered":"CA2: Motorcycle checkpoint shown justified by special needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A motorcycle checkpoint program in New York State was shown to be justified by special needs. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca2.uscourts.gov\/decisions\/isysquery\/63ddaf28-6d39-4c40-bafa-07e4c8ed52a4\/2\/doc\/11-5277_so.pdf#xml=http:\/\/www.ca2.uscourts.gov\/decisions\/isysquery\/63ddaf28-6d39-4c40-bafa-07e4c8ed52a4\/2\/hilite\/\">Wagner v. Sprague<\/a>, 489 Fed. Appx. 500 (2d Cir. 2012) [but this is a memorandum opinion with no facts].<\/p>\n<p>The government justified a protective sweep of defendant\u2019s house by showing his history of violence. This one took less than two minutes. United States v. Davis, 906 F. Supp. 2d 545 (S.D. W.Va. 2012)*:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The officers&#8217; check of the rooms was prudent, cursory, and over and done with in about two minutes. Given the Defendant&#8217;s past history of violence, his evasive behavior upon the officers&#8217; arrival at the home, and the presence of a fully loaded assault weapon fitted with a large, unsheathed bayonet that was within easy reach of a potential hidden attacker, the officers had every reason to be concerned for their safety. In light of these facts, the officers&#8217; limited precautionary check of the spaces immediately adjoining the point of arrest was constitutionally reasonable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8035\">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-8035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8035","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=8035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}