{"id":3969,"date":"2011-05-02T10:44:16","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T05:21:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T05:22:51","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=3969","title":{"rendered":"ID: Trial court&#8217;s crediting officer&#8217;s suppression hearing testimony was binding despite conflict with prelim testimony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The trial court credited the officer\u2019s testimony at the suppression hearing despite an inconsistency with the preliminary hearing testimony as to when the search occurred. This was binding on the appeals courts, and the court of appeals erred in reversing on that ground. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isc.idaho.gov\/opinions\/State%20v.%20Munoz%20opinion.pdf\">State v. Munoz<\/a>, 149 Idaho 121, 233 P.3d 52 (2010), reh&#8217;g denied 2010 Ida. LEXIS 85 (May 13, 2010).*<\/p>\n<p>Defendant\u2019s arrest for DUI justified a search incident under Gant or Belton for evidence of the DUI. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isc.idaho.gov\/opinions\/cantrell%20opinion.pdf\">State v. Cantrell<\/a>, 233 P.3d 178 (Ida. App. 2010), review denied 2010 Ida. LEXIS 105 (June 10, 2010).*<\/p>\n<p>The defendants were stopped for weaving, and the officer noticed they were nervous and gave inconsistent versions of their trip. He got a drug dog out to sniff the car while they were stopped, and that was not unreasonable. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mssc.state.ms.us\/Images\/Opinions\/CO61873.pdf\">Shelton v. State<\/a>, 45 So. 3d 1203 (Miss. App. 2010).*<\/p>\n<p>Defendant was stopped for a window tint violation, and the officer saw marijuana crumbs on the console. The defendant\u2019s DL was suspended. The officer searched the vehicle for towing and found marijuana, which was validly seized. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndcourts.com\/_court\/opinions\/20090293.htm\">State v. Dudley<\/a>, 2010 ND 39, 779 N.W.2d 369 (2010).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=3969\">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-3969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969","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=3969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}