{"id":17267,"date":"2015-05-17T00:22:26","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T05:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17267"},"modified":"2015-05-16T10:24:20","modified_gmt":"2015-05-16T15:24:20","slug":"ca9-denial-of-a-suppression-hearing-is-reviewed-for-abuse-of-discretion-no-contested-facts-no-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17267","title":{"rendered":"CA9: Denial of a suppression hearing is reviewed for abuse of discretion; no contested facts, no abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denial of a suppression hearing is reviewed for abuse of discretion. Here, there were no contested facts, and the district court found that the use of a flashlight to illuminate defendant\u2019s car seeing a gun in plain view was reasonable. <a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov\/datastore\/memoranda\/2015\/05\/15\/14-10179.pdf\">United States v. Lake<\/a>, 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 8058 (9th Cir. May 15, 2015).*<\/p>\n<p>Temporary seizure of a weapon may be necessary for officer safety. Then, when the police discover that the defendant is a convicted felon, the evidentiary value of the gun becomes apparent. United States v. Parker, 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 61939 (E.D. La. May 12, 2015).*<\/p>\n<p>Defendant\u2019s 2255 was way off the mark; disjointed and rambling, including a purported Franks issue, and it failed to provide any basis for concluding that defense counsel was ineffective for not pursuing a losing motion. United States v. Tillage, 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 62292 (E.D. Tenn. May 8, 2015).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denial of a suppression hearing is reviewed for abuse of discretion. Here, there were no contested facts, and the district court found that the use of a flashlight to illuminate defendant\u2019s car seeing a gun in plain view was reasonable. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17267\">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":[66,3,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-burden-of-proof","category-emergency-exigency","category-ineffective-assistance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17267","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=17267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17268,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17267\/revisions\/17268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}