{"id":4788,"date":"2011-01-08T14:39:55","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T07:52:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T07:52:37","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=4788","title":{"rendered":"GA: Mere fact defendant was handcuffed did not make his consent invalid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fact defendant was handcuffed did not make consent invalid. \u201cFinally, we reject Silverio\u2019s argument that he merely acquiesced to a claim of lawful authority in allowing the search, as his assertion is not supported by the evidence. Rather, he and his sister testified that the officers never asked for his consent to search the premises. Having denied that officers requested his consent, Silverio cannot now claim that he permitted a search.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lexisone.com\/lx1\/caselaw\/freecaselaw?searchType=citation&amp;fclSearch=2010+Ga.+App.+LEXIS+964&amp;action=FCLSearchCaseByCitation&amp;pageLimit=10&amp;format=CITE&amp;pageNumber=1&amp;sourceID=&amp;citation=2010+Ga.+App.+LEXIS+964&amp;searchTerm=\">Silverio v. State<\/a>, 2010 Ga. App. LEXIS 964 (October 13, 2010).*<\/p>\n<p>Defendant had no objectively reasonable expectation of privacy in a shopping bag of drugs that he handed over to a co-conspirator who put it in the co-conspirator\u2019s car when that other car was searched. He may have had a subjective expectation of privacy, but it was not one that society would recognize as reasonable. By turning it over, he assumed the risk that it would be taken from the co-conspirator. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.14thcoa.courts.state.tx.us\/opinions\/HTMLopinion.asp?OpinionID=87440\">Tri Pham v. State<\/a>, 324 S.W.3d 869 (Tex. App. \u2013 Houston 2010).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=4788\">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-4788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788","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=4788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}