{"id":45182,"date":"2020-09-02T07:00:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T12:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=45182"},"modified":"2020-09-02T07:19:33","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T12:19:33","slug":"pa-def-gets-benefit-of-birchfield-by-adequately-raising-issue-before-it-was-even-decided-but-he-loses-on-merits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=45182","title":{"rendered":"PA: Def gets benefit of <em>Birchfield<\/em> by adequately raising issue before it was even decided; but he loses on merits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Defendant would get the benefit of Birchfield because he developed and preserved the same argument below. He loses on the merits, however, because he voluntarily consented before the officer told him of the criminal penalties for refusal, so his consent wasn\u2019t caused by that. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-S38031-20o%20-%20104531141110459328.pdf?cb=1\">Commonwealth v. Gaston<\/a>, 2020 Pa. Super. LEXIS 746 (Sept. 1, 2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the totality of circumstances, defendant\u2019s consent during a traffic stop and recorded by a camera was voluntary. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-A11018-20o%20-%20104531526110484813.pdf?cb=1\">Commonwealth v. Carmenates<\/a>, 2020 Pa. Super. LEXIS 748 (Sept. 1, 2020).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant would get the benefit of Birchfield because he developed and preserved the same argument below. He loses on the merits, however, because he voluntarily consented before the officer told him of the criminal penalties for refusal, so his consent &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=45182\">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":[24,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consent","category-drug-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45182","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=45182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45183,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45182\/revisions\/45183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}