{"id":24350,"date":"2016-11-09T10:23:16","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T15:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=24350"},"modified":"2016-11-09T10:23:16","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T15:23:16","slug":"tx14-dashcam-video-didnt-support-officers-version-and-appellate-court-wont-reverse-suppression-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=24350","title":{"rendered":"TX14: Dashcam video didn&#8217;t support officer&#8217;s version and appellate court won&#8217;t reverse suppression order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The dashcam video doesn\u2019t support the state\u2019s contention defendant was weaving before the stop, and there is no abuse of discretion in the trial court\u2019s findings suppressing the stop for a \u201cwelfare check\u201d that led to a DUI arrest. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.search.txcourts.gov\/SearchMedia.aspx?MediaVersionID=8635ae15-8af8-4ed2-9dd9-563ac77eb90f&#038;MediaID=315d0bdb-f972-4db8-b01e-fb987b836b09&#038;coa=%22%20+%20this.CurrentWebState.CurrentCourt%20+%20@%22&#038;DT=Opinion\">State v. Bernard<\/a>, 2016 Tex. App. LEXIS 12018 (Tex. App. \u2013 Houston (14th Dist.) Nov. 8, 2016).*<\/p>\n<p>There was cause for defendant\u2019s stop for a traffic offense, and then defendant fled. \u201cCalmese&#8217;s subsequent flight from police provided further justification for his detention.\u201d United States v. Calmese, 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 152769 (E.D.Mo. Oct. 7, 2016),* adopted, 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 151063 (E.D. Mo. Nov. 1, 2016).*<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven taking defendant&#8217;s version of the facts into account, when the \u2018entire, tightly forged chain of circumstances\u2019 is considered, there is sufficient evidence to establish probable cause for the arrest. See Maguire, 918 F.2d at 258. A number of events support such a finding.\u201d United States v. Rachal, 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 153386 (D.Mass. Nov. 3, 2016).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dashcam video doesn\u2019t support the state\u2019s contention defendant was weaving before the stop, and there is no abuse of discretion in the trial court\u2019s findings suppressing the stop for a \u201cwelfare check\u201d that led to a DUI arrest. State &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=24350\">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":[20,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-probable-cause","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24350","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=24350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24351,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24350\/revisions\/24351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}