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D.Nev.: 911 call of person in trunk of car in LV was RS

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

911 call of a person stuffed in a trunk in Las Vegas in summer was reasonable suspicion because it meant a possible kidnaping. United States v. Chacon, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 128175 (D. Nev. March 23, 2009): The touchstone of the Fourth Amendment is reasonableness. Terry-Crespo, 356 F.3d a 1176. Adults do not normally get into automobile trunks voluntarily. They especially do not engage in such conduct on a summer day in Las Vegas, Nevada. The 911 caller's information that he had just seen a man put a woman in the trunk of a Cadillac therefore clearly raised reasonable suspicion that a kidnaping crime was in progress which required an immediate police response before the vehicle disappeared into traffic or the woman reported to be in the trunk suffered injury or further injury...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on July 08, 2010 (boomark / email).