{"id":3202,"date":"2009-06-23T07:34:06","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T07:34:06","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T07:34:06","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=3202","title":{"rendered":"OH8: Obvious trial strategy was to deny ownership of bag, so defense counsel not ineffective for not embracing it and moving to suppress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defense trial strategy was to deny ownership of a bag defendant claimed he found, which was consistent with defendant&#8217;s denials. Therefore, it was logical to not file a motion to suppress and rely on lack of ownership, so no IAC. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sconet.state.oh.us\/rod\/docs\/pdf\/8\/2009\/2009-ohio-2881.pdf\">State v. Davis<\/a>, 2009 Ohio 2881, 2009 Ohio App. LEXIS 2418 (8th Dist. June 18, 2009).*<\/p>\n<p>A 24 minute detention on RS was reasonable before a dog sniff. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sconet.state.oh.us\/rod\/docs\/pdf\/12\/2009\/2009-ohio-2814.pdf\">State v. Graham<\/a>, 2009 Ohio 2814, 2009 Ohio App. LEXIS 2394 (12th Dist. June 15, 2009).*<\/p>\n<p>Defense counsel could not be ineffective for not raising a meritless search and seizure issue. Sias v. United States, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 51521 (S.D. Tex. June 18, 2009).*<\/p>\n<p>The court credits the officers&#8217; testimony that the defendant consented to a search of his house. United States v. Jones, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 51543 (E.D. Pa. June 12, 2009)*; United States v. Hynson, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 51574 (E.D. Pa. June 11, 2009).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=3202\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}