{"id":9751,"date":"2013-11-08T13:10:52","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T10:44:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-04-24T05:51:38","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T10:51:38","slug":"en-us-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9751","title":{"rendered":"CA8: Arrest for possession of a weapon in the face of a complete \u201cjourney\u201d defense was w\/o PC, so no QI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officer who arrested 1983 plaintiff for possession of a semi-automatic weapon who was clearly on a \u201cjourney,\u201d a complete defense at the time [since strengthened by new state law], had no qualified immunity. Because of the complete defense, there was no probable cause for the arrest. <a href=\"http:\/\/media.ca8.uscourts.gov\/opndir\/13\/11\/123383P.pdf\">Stoner v. Watlingten<\/a>, 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 22586 (8th Cir. November 7, 2013).<\/p>\n<p>The product of wiretaps was attested to by four officers on the search warrant affidavit. Defendant was talking about packaging and distributing drugs. That was probable cause. <a href=\"http:\/\/isysweb.ca4.uscourts.gov\/isysquery\/bacbf32a-51e1-463a-9171-818e8a1da315\/2\/doc\/\">United States v. Dowdell<\/a>, 546 Fed. Appx. 128 (4th Cir. 2013).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9751\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9751","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=9751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11202,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9751\/revisions\/11202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}