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M.D. Ga.: Law firm search warrant permitted seizure of all electronic equipment for later search

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

Search of bookbag during consent to search a car was reasonable and within the consent. Vaughan v. Commonwealth, 2009 Va. App. LEXIS 82 (February 24, 2009).* Officers had reasonable suspicion to pat-down defendant because the officers reasonably suspected that he was armed and dangerous since rumors of drug-trafficking by defendant and the driver were specific enough to be reliable, the information that defendant had brandished a gun 17 days earlier was not stale, and the manner in which defendant exited the car without facing the officer reasonably aroused suspicion. United States v. Lazos, 2009 U.S. App. LEXIS 3734 (10th Cir. February 24, 2009) (unpublished).* Third party consent after defendant's allegedly invalid arrest was valid. United States v...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on February 28, 2009 (boomark / email).