{"id":8940,"date":"2013-11-19T07:04:03","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T06:03:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T06:03:24","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8940","title":{"rendered":"OH2: Syringe could be seized by plain feel during patdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant was encountered by an officer on the street who mentioned that the defendant matched the description of a guy wanted in a recent burglary. The discussion remained conversational and the officer asked for permission to do a patdown, which defendant agreed (acceded) to. A syringe was felt in his pocket and that was plain feel for more. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sconet.state.oh.us\/rod\/docs\/pdf\/2\/2013\/2013-ohio-2579.pdf\">State v. Ohlert<\/a>, 2013 Ohio 2579, 2013 Ohio App. LEXIS 2547 (2d Dist. June 21, 2013).<\/p>\n<p>Officers had detailed information that a red car was coming through Georgia with drugs in a hidden compartment. When the car was seen and stopped for a traffic offense, and also for reasonable suspicion of drug trafficking, the officers got consent and did not go directly to the hidden compartment to not burn their source. They found the opening mechanism hidden in the trunk. The stop was valid as was the consent. United States v. Diaz-Fonseca, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 87183 (S.D. Ga. May 14, 2013).*<\/p>\n<p>In a state wiretapping case, the fact a federal wiretap application previously used was used in state court too doesn\u2019t invalid it. <a href=\"https:\/\/efast.gaappeals.us\/download?filingId=7f05816d-e402-4273-947a-da88751eecc2\">State v. Harrell<\/a>, 323 Ga. App. 56, 744 S.E.2d 867 (2013).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8940\">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-8940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8940","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=8940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}