{"id":20147,"date":"2015-12-28T01:22:51","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T06:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20147"},"modified":"2015-12-25T15:25:33","modified_gmt":"2015-12-25T20:25:33","slug":"if-youre-going-to-contest-consent-you-better-have-some-testimony-countering-the-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20147","title":{"rendered":"If you\u2019re going to contest consent, you better have some testimony countering the officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the state carries the burden on warrantless searches, if the officer&#8217;s testimony is uncontested, it can certainly be credited by the trial court, and that clearly will be sufficient for appellate review: \u201cHere, the defendant was under arrest at the time he executed a consent to search. Nonetheless, the defendant signed a consent-to-search form and, by Deputy Ashford&#8217;s account, fully cooperated with the investigation. Defendant did not dispute any of this testimony. Consequently, the State sufficiently proved that the defendant freely and voluntarily consented to a search of his person and property.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.la-fcca.org\/opiniongrid\/opinionpdf\/2015%20KA%200696%20Decision%20Appeal.pdf\">State v. Williams<\/a>, 2015 La. App. LEXIS 2657 (La.App. 1 Cir. Dec. 23, 2015).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the state carries the burden on warrantless searches, if the officer&#8217;s testimony is uncontested, it can certainly be credited by the trial court, and that clearly will be sufficient for appellate review: \u201cHere, the defendant was under arrest at &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20147\">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":[66,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-burden-of-proof","category-consent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20147","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=20147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20148,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20147\/revisions\/20148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}