{"id":31024,"date":"2018-01-01T00:00:48","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T05:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=31024"},"modified":"2017-12-29T18:42:29","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T23:42:29","slug":"pa-alluding-to-a-scotus-case-without-fleshing-out-how-it-applies-is-waiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=31024","title":{"rendered":"PA: Alluding to a SCOTUS case without fleshing out how it applies held waiver when argument complicated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The defense didn\u2019t properly frame its argument under Birchfield about forced implied consent and thus didn\u2019t preserve error. \u201cWe cannot conclude that the trial court erred in denying Appellant&#8217;s suppression motion that vaguely cited to Birchfield.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/Opinion%20%20Affirmed%20%2010337136831190078.pdf?cb=1\">Commonwealth v. Smith<\/a>, 2017 PA Super 416, 2017 Pa. Super. LEXIS 1108 (Dec. 28, 2017).<\/p>\n<p>Defendant was tried on a 54 year old murder case. Defense counsel had a year to file a motion to suppress but didn\u2019t do so until ten days before trial contending that he couldn\u2019t be sure what the grounds for suppression would be. The trial court didn\u2019t abuse it\u2019s discretion in denying the motion as untimely. <a href=\"http:\/\/la3circuit.org\/Opinions\/2017\/12\/122817\/17-0354opi.pdf\">State v. Vail<\/a>, 2017 La. App. LEXIS 2477 (La.App. 3 Cir. Dec. 28, 2017).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The defense didn\u2019t properly frame its argument under Birchfield about forced implied consent and thus didn\u2019t preserve error. \u201cWe cannot conclude that the trial court erred in denying Appellant&#8217;s suppression motion that vaguely cited to Birchfield.\u201d Commonwealth v. Smith, 2017 &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=31024\">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":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-burden-of-pleading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31024","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=31024"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31029,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31024\/revisions\/31029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}