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Street Cop Podcast

Obstructed View Case Law

Street Cop Podcast

Street Cop Training

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4.9933 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

In this rerun episode, Dennis discusses case law surrounding an obstructed view and procedures for using this as a pretext for a motor vehicle stop. Recorded on 03/01/2017. If you like what you are hearing and want to stay in the loop with the latest in Street Cop Training, please follow our Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/StreetCopTraining

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0:00.0

One another one that one can't be out of the way.

0:03.0

Uh-huh.

0:05.0

You trying to be a hot-up.

0:07.0

You trying to be a street cop?

0:10.0

Hey, everybody.

0:12.0

Sorry, it's been a few days since I've gotten out here and giving you guys a video, but we did have a large class Monday, Tuesday hosted by

0:19.1

Deptford PD in Gloucester County. Thanks for having me and I will be back in the fall.

0:23.4

We had a really big turnout.

0:25.0

A lot of good guys got to experience this for the first time to two-day course and I think

0:28.0

we've really got some mad at it so we had a good group, a lot of energy in the room.

0:38.1

A lot of good guys but what we're going to talk about now is State versus Thomas Barrow out of Hazl like 2009 and the case regarding 3934 obstructive view and items tangling from rear view mirrors of cars.

0:46.3

And what is allowed and what isn't? So the reason I do this because when you go out and I know guys are stopping cars

0:52.1

for stuff hanging from the rear of your mirror,

0:53.6

you gotta be careful because if you're pulling somebody over for a Christmas tree style

0:57.2

air freshener, that won't cut it. And maybe you said to yourself, hey, I've had this before and it flew in court, maybe because the defense attorney or the judge or the prosecution did not know what the case law was.

1:09.0

And I'm giving you here, so when you have this stop, you don't make this mistake and lose your probable cause if you have a good case.

1:16.6

So here's what the case law said.

1:18.2

I'm going to slide it's over a little bit and just turn on my thing here all over a second guys.

1:28.4

All right, Thomas Varro.

1:29.9

Same as yours, Thomas J. Barrow.

1:32.3

I'm sorry Thomas V Barrow. I'm sorry to tell us the Barrow.

1:34.0

Like, is it time of shit?

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