{"id":8155,"date":"2013-02-11T13:27:20","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T00:17:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T21:58:54","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8155","title":{"rendered":"IN: Second stop shortly after first was valid because of traffic offense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant was stopped by an officer who was curious because defendant was towing a trailer, not the type normally towed by a large tractor trailer truck. Defendant didn\u2019t have answers about all his travel. An EPIC query showed defendant was once involved in a large cash seizure in Michigan. The officer asked for consent, it was denied, and defendant was allowed to go. The officer radioed to other officers who followed defendant again and stopped him for two traffic offenses. Further reasonable suspicion developed, and a drug dog was called which alerted. Cocaine was found during the search, which was valid. The second stop was justified, and defendant doesn\u2019t contest it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.in.gov\/judiciary\/opinions\/pdf\/12211203msm.pdf\">Austin v. State<\/a>, 980 N.E.2d 429 (Ind. App. 2012).*<\/p>\n<p>Stop based on the fact the high center brake light had one of two bulbs out was not illegal as a matter of law. During the stop, the officer could smell burnt marijuana in the car. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.state.va.us\/opinions\/opncavwp\/2439112.pdf\">Otey v. Commonwealth<\/a>, 61 Va. App. 346, 735 S.E.2d 255 (2012).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8155\">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-8155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8155","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=8155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}