{"id":26286,"date":"2014-07-11T12:35:03","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T19:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=26286"},"modified":"2014-07-11T12:47:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T19:47:54","slug":"read-about-ruling-in-centralia-case-reins-in-scope-of-police-frisks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=26286","title":{"rendered":"Read about ruling in Centralia case reins in scope of police frisks \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sharyn L. Decker<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Lewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Seattle Times reports a state Supreme Court decision issued yesterday limits the scope of frisking by police to search someone for weapons in order to ensure officer safety.<\/p>\n<p>News reporter Sara Jean Green writes the ruling focuses on warrantless searches of small containers, with the justices finding that such searches are generally unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>The case involved the 2011 arrest of Tanner Zachary Roy Russell, stopped for riding his bicycle without a headlight, when a meth-filled syringe was found in a small container in his jacket, according to the Seattle Times.<\/p>\n<p>Read about it <a title=\"&quot;Ruling reins in scope of police frisks&quot; from The Seattle Times on Thursday July 10, 2014 at 8:25 p.m.\" href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.com\/html\/localnews\/2024041680_supremecourtfriskxml.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or read the document for yourself, <a title=\"In the Supreme Court of the state of Washington, No. 89253-9: State of Washington v. Tanner Zachary Roy Russell\" href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.wa.gov\/opinions\/pdf\/892539.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter The Seattle Times reports a state Supreme Court decision issued yesterday limits the scope of frisking by police to search someone for weapons in order to ensure officer safety. News reporter Sara Jean Green writes the ruling focuses on warrantless searches of small containers, with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26286"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26289,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26286\/revisions\/26289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}