{"id":16618,"date":"2015-04-03T09:52:16","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T14:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=16618"},"modified":"2015-04-03T09:52:16","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T14:52:16","slug":"tx1-comment-on-refusal-to-consent-here-wasnt-prejudicial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=16618","title":{"rendered":"TX1: Comment on refusal to consent here wasn&#8217;t prejudicial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The prosecutor commented on defendant\u2019s refusal to consent and defense counsel didn\u2019t object. On this record, there was plenty of evidence of defendant\u2019s knowledge of the drugs such that the error, if it was, was prejudicial to him. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.search.txcourts.gov\/SearchMedia.aspx?MediaVersionID=2645112a-333d-4735-a7da-21805e27d568&#038;MediaID=cada8050-0b95-4251-97d1-a25eb1d71689&#038;coa=%22%20+%20this.CurrentWebState.CurrentCourt%20+%20@%22&#038;DT=Opinion\">Jones v. State<\/a>, 2015 Tex. App. LEXIS 3139 (Tex.App. \u2013 Houston (1st Dist.) March 31, 2015).<\/p>\n<p>The court credits that defendant consented to the police entry but they retreated when his pit bull appeared after the dog was put away, then they reentered. Any constitutional violation was minimally flagrant. United States v. Wortham, 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 42929 (E.D. Wis. February 6, 2015), prior op. 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 183249 (E.D. Wis.  December 5, 2014).*<\/p>\n<p>Defendant\u2019s car was parked partly on the street with somebody behind the wheel at 2:45 am, so the officer decided to conduct a welfare check and the use of emergency lights didn\u2019t make it an arrest. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsc.state.tn.us\/sites\/default\/files\/revisedmccormick.pdf\">State v. McCormick<\/a>, 2015 Tenn. Crim. App. LEXIS 238 (April 2, 2015).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prosecutor commented on defendant\u2019s refusal to consent and defense counsel didn\u2019t object. On this record, there was plenty of evidence of defendant\u2019s knowledge of the drugs such that the error, if it was, was prejudicial to him. Jones v. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=16618\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,24,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-caretaking-function","category-consent","category-ineffective-assistance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16619,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16618\/revisions\/16619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}