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W.D.Ark.: Collective knowledge doctrine applies to traffic stops

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

Collective knowledge of police doctrine applied to traffic stop for speeding where officer radioed ahead to another. United States v. Allen, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 5565 (W.D. Ark. January 4, 2011)* [Note: Obviously. If not, how could a spotter in an airplane or an officer running fixed radar with somebody else doing the stopping ever work?] Search warrant application for drug dealing to minors sought also search of defendant’s computer and cell phone. It is logical to find evidence of drug dealing on the cell phone from calls made to arrange transactions. After the warrant was issued but before it was served, the police developed information that there might be child pornography on the computer transferred from the cell phone. The computer was searched under the warrant and child pornography was found...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on January 24, 2011 (boomark / email).