{"id":19694,"date":"2015-11-28T00:19:10","date_gmt":"2015-11-28T05:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=19694"},"modified":"2015-11-26T18:21:24","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T23:21:24","slug":"wa-def-not-entitled-to-suppression-hearing-where-only-disputed-fact-wasnt-material-to-any-fourth-amendment-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=19694","title":{"rendered":"WA: Def not entitled to suppression hearing where only disputed fact wasn&#8217;t material to any Fourth Amendment question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was no right to a suppression hearing where the only disputed fact was irrelevant to any Fourth Amendment question. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.wa.gov\/opinions\/index.cfm?fa=opinions.showOpinion&#038;filename=453746MAJ\">State v. Houston-Sconiers<\/a>, 2015 Wash. App. LEXIS 2915 (Nov. 24, 2015).<\/p>\n<p>Defendant was stopped because the officer knew from a contact two days earlier that defendant\u2019s DL was suspended. Defendant\u2019s passengers also didn\u2019t have DLs, and the officer didn\u2019t keep them telling them they could walk off. The officer could have impounded defendant\u2019s car, and he asked for consent, got it, and called for a drug dog. Defendant admitted he had a meth pipe, and that was all that was found. The officer testified he decided not to impound the car because of defendant\u2019s cooperation. The record supports that the consent was valid, and the trial court didn\u2019t believe that defendant was told to consent or his car would be impounded. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.wa.gov\/opinions\/index.cfm?fa=opinions.showOpinion&#038;filename=453967MAJ\">State v. Cherry<\/a>, 2015 Wash. App. LEXIS 2914 (Nov. 24, 2015).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was no right to a suppression hearing where the only disputed fact was irrelevant to any Fourth Amendment question. State v. Houston-Sconiers, 2015 Wash. App. LEXIS 2915 (Nov. 24, 2015). Defendant was stopped because the officer knew from a &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=19694\">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":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19694","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=19694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19696,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19694\/revisions\/19696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}