{"id":9587,"date":"2014-02-06T07:49:36","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T17:49:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T17:49:47","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9587","title":{"rendered":"LA5: RS not required to approach a person to talk to him about drugs on him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant was not detained when he was approached by officers and asked if he had \u201canything illegal on\u201d him. He said \u201ca bag of weed.\u201d Reasonable suspicion not required. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fifthcircuit.org\/PDF\/OPINIONS\/PO\/2013\/C40AF333-B256-440C-8B08-B3F64273B9DA.pdf\">State v. Alberti<\/a>, 128 So. 3d 351 (La. App. 5 Cir. 2013).*<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, officers did not need reasonable suspicion to approach defendant\u2019s car to talk to him and then they saw marijuana in plain view. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fifthcircuit.org\/PDF\/OPINIONS\/PO\/2013\/41448361-BF3C-487C-AAD3-FFE4E532DAFA.pdf\">State v. Williams<\/a>, 128 So. 3d 359 (La. App. 5 Cir. 2013).*<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf a defendant asserts such an interaction is a seizure rather than an encounter, he bears the initial burden of establishing that the interaction was a seizure rather than an encounter. See Woodard, 341 S.W.3d at 413. [\u00b6] The difference between a detention and encounter is that a detention implicates the Fourth Amendment&#8217;s search and seizure restrictions and requires articulable suspicion to support a temporary seizure, while an encounter is not subject to those requirements or restrictions.\u201d This was a mere encounter. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.search.txcourts.gov\/SearchMedia.aspx?MediaVersionID=2a8243a1-cb79-4a28-8eb6-521e3d5936da&amp;MediaID=4a673c6c-4811-4fbe-9074-4ddb1bbc8a87&amp;coa=%22%20+%20this.CurrentWebState.CurrentCourt%20+%20@%22&amp;DT=Opinion\">Amaya v. State<\/a>, 2013 Tex. App. LEXIS 12509 (Tex. App. \u2013 El Paso October 9, 2013).* <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9587\">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-9587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9587","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=9587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}