{"id":638,"date":"2009-10-30T14:03:40","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T20:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookcountypd.org\/blog\/?p=638"},"modified":"2009-10-30T14:26:36","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T20:26:36","slug":"search-of-defendants-car-unconstitutional-although","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/10\/30\/search-of-defendants-car-unconstitutional-although\/","title":{"rendered":"Car Search Unconstitutional Although Defendant Arrested Five Feet Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Following a traffic stop, Lavar Bridgewater was less than cooperative with the police. He walked away from the car into a store, then out of the store refusing to give the\u00a0officers his license and <span id=\"lw_1256932621_1\" style=\"BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed\">proof of insurance<\/span> because &#8220;he had done nothing wrong.&#8221;\u00a0 Bridgewater refused to remove his hands from his pockets or put them on the store window. He was then arrested five feet from his car for obstructing a <span id=\"lw_1256932621_2\">peace officer<\/span>. He was cuffed and placed in the officer&#8217;s vehicle. Bridgewater&#8217;s car was then searched revealing a weapon. Our <span id=\"lw_1256932621_3\" style=\"BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none\">Supreme Court<\/span> affirmed the trial court&#8217;s order suppressing the gun, following the <span id=\"lw_1256932621_4\" style=\"CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed\">U.S. Supreme Court<\/span>&#8216;s recent decision in Arizona v Gant, 173 L. Ed. 485 (2009). Read <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.il.us\/court\/Opinions\/SupremeCourt\/2009\/October\/105075.pdf\">People v Bridgewater<\/a>, No. 105075 10\/29\/09.<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a traffic stop, Lavar Bridgewater was less than cooperative with the police. He walked away from the car into a store, then out of the store refusing to give the\u00a0officers his license and proof of insurance because &#8220;he had done nothing wrong.&#8221;\u00a0 Bridgewater refused to remove his hands from his pockets or put them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}