{"id":50909,"date":"2021-12-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=50909"},"modified":"2021-12-25T08:47:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-25T13:47:22","slug":"tn-even-if-a-viable-motion-to-suppress-existed-it-was-reasonable-strategy-to-work-a-plea-deal-considering-all-the-evidence-of-guilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=50909","title":{"rendered":"TN: Even if a viable motion to suppress existed, it was reasonable strategy to work a plea deal considering all the evidence of guilt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Defense counsel wasn\u2019t ineffective for not filing a suppression motion and working a plea deal instead. First, with the mountain of evidence against defendant, it was wise to work out a deal and avoid sentencing after trial for sexual assault and manufacturing child porn. Second, the search was valid as a private search, so he\u2019d lose a suppression motion. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tncourts.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/m2020-01619-cca-r3-pc_-_unsigned.pdf\">Harris v. State<\/a>, 2021 Tenn. Crim. App. LEXIS 585 (Dec. 22, 2021).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The citizen informant here called to say that defendant was smoking marijuana in her car, and he even testified at the suppression hearing. There was objective reason to credit him for reasonable suspicion for the encounter. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.ohio.gov\/rod\/docs\/pdf\/6\/2021\/2021-Ohio-4509.pdf\">State v. Rasheed<\/a>, 2021-Ohio-4509, 2021 Ohio App. LEXIS 4418 (6th Dist. Dec. 22, 2021).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Including the omitted information in the showing of probable cause that defendant complains about, there still was probable cause. United States v. Hampton, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 244825 (C.D.Ill. Nov. 18, 2021), adopted, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 244104 (C.D.Ill. Dec. 21, 2021).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense counsel wasn\u2019t ineffective for not filing a suppression motion and working a plea deal instead. First, with the mountain of evidence against defendant, it was wise to work out a deal and avoid sentencing after trial for sexual assault &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=50909\">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":[23,44,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ineffective-assistance","category-informant-hearsay","category-probable-cause"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50909","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=50909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50910,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50909\/revisions\/50910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}