Warrantless Search and Seizure Memorandum

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PROJECT TWO: Warrantless Search and Seizure Memorandum MEMORANDUM TO: teacher FROM: student DATE: June 15, 2013 RE: Vehicle Search FACTS Officer Timothy Johnson was working the midnight to eight am shift. At approximately 0300hrs Officer Johnson heard an “Amber Alert” for a missing three year old female child by the name of Wanda Jones. Wanda Jones was reported missing by her grandmother who is her custodial parent. The grandmother reported that the child was taken from the home. The grandmother reported that the child was taken by her estranged father and placed in the trunk of a car. The Grandmother described the car as small and foreign. The missing child’s name is Wanda Jones. Wanda is a white female, 27 inches tall, short brown hair, brown eyes last seen wearing a light blue nightshirt. The father is Albert Finney, 69 inches tall, brown hair, brown eyes, wearing a white tee-short and blue jeans. “No further description of the vehicle is available at this time.” according to the dispatcher’s announcement. After the dispatcher announced the alert, Officer Johnson realized the address provided in the broadcast was about 2 miles east of the stationhouse. Officer Johnson made a note of the information provided. About an hour later around 0400hrs Johnson pulled up at a traffic light behind a Fiat coupe sports car. In this community sports cars were not at all unusual, but as this one pulled away Johnson noticed that it stuttered and stalled. The driver re-started the car, but it stuttered forward and stalled again. Johnson suspected the driver of being impaired or suffering from mechanical issued and decided to perform a traffic stop on the vehicle. Once Officer Johnson was able to pull the car over to a curb side stop, he approached the driver’s window and asked for his license and vehicle

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