{"id":26477,"date":"2017-03-29T00:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T05:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26477"},"modified":"2017-03-28T17:37:27","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T22:37:27","slug":"oh4-isolated-unsolicited-comment-def-refused-to-consent-to-search-was-not-error-and-was-harmless-error-at-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26477","title":{"rendered":"OH4: Isolated unsolicited comment def refused to consent to search was not error and was harmless error at best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An isolated comment volunteered by a witness that defendant refused to consent to a search that was never mentioned again wasn\u2019t error. Even so, the evidence of guilt was overwhelming so it\u2019s harmless. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourt.ohio.gov\/rod\/docs\/pdf\/4\/2017\/2017-Ohio-1100.pdf\">State v. Angus<\/a>, 2017-Ohio-1100, 2017 Ohio App. LEXIS 1083 (4th Dist. March 21, 2017).<\/p>\n<p>Defense counsel wasn\u2019t ineffective for not filing a motion to suppress where the codefendant lost on the same issue. \u201cWith the above in mind, we hold that, even if appellant&#8217;s trial counsel should have filed a motion to suppress evidence, appellant has failed to demonstrate a reasonable probability that the motion would have been granted.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourt.ohio.gov\/rod\/docs\/pdf\/11\/2017\/2017-Ohio-1102.pdf\">State v. David<\/a>, 2017-Ohio-1102, 2017 Ohio App. LEXIS 1085 (11th Dist.March 27, 2017) (2-1).*<\/p>\n<p>Defendant\u2019s guilty plea waived his suppression issue. He claimed the search warrant didn\u2019t authorize seizure of firearms, but it specifically did. United States v. Foster, 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 185382 (M.D. Fla. Nov. 14, 2016).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An isolated comment volunteered by a witness that defendant refused to consent to a search that was never mentioned again wasn\u2019t error. Even so, the evidence of guilt was overwhelming so it\u2019s harmless. State v. Angus, 2017-Ohio-1100, 2017 Ohio App. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26477\">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":[24,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consent","category-ineffective-assistance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26477","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=26477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26478,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26477\/revisions\/26478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}