{"id":6455,"date":"2012-02-26T11:28:58","date_gmt":"2011-12-25T00:22:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-24T14:00:10","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6455","title":{"rendered":"NY3: Defense counsel not ineffective for choosing to exploit the product of the search (and he would have lost anyhow)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defense counsel waived the motions to suppress on the record because he needed some exculpatory evidence from the search and statement, and that was reasonable strategy. In dicta, the court says that the search incident, including the cell phone, had \u201cno colorable basis.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.state.ny.us\/reporter\/3dseries\/2011\/2011_09216.htm\">People v Nguyen<\/a>, 2011 NY Slip Op 9216, 90 A.D.3d 1330, 935 N.Y.S.2d 195 (3d Dept. 2011). <strong>Practice pointer:<\/strong> In \u00a7 45.18 of the Treatise, it is observed that sometimes the police likely violated the client\u2019s right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure, but the product of the search may even be more helpful to the case as a whole: \u201cAccordingly, counsel must always ultimately determine whether the defendant\u2019s trial strategy would be aided or harmed by the admission or exclusion of the allegedly illegally seized evidence.\u201d I\u2019ve had cases where the product of the search wasn\u2019t critical to the prosecution\u2019s case but was actually exculpatory to the defense. So, why file a motion to suppress if you need it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6455\">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-6455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6455","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=6455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}