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IN: Officer not obligated to give a parking ticket before defendant drove off; stop was reasonable

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

The officer here saw the defendant parking in a handicapped spot without a sticker, and then drove off. That justified the stop, and defendant was driving with his DL forfeited for life, and that's a felony. Haynes v. State, 2010 Ind. App. LEXIS 2293 (December 8, 2010).* Different recollections of the police officers as to the “the time and place that consent” did not go to the voluntariness and was insufficient to find the trial court’s finding erroneous. Clemmons v. State, 2010 Ark. App. 810, 2010 Ark. App. LEXIS 856 (December 8, 2010).* Police bike officers saw a middle aged couple in a park talking, and they seemed unusual for the park because of their age. So, the officers came up and asked for ID but said that they were not in any trouble...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on December 13, 2010 (boomark / email).