{"id":6527,"date":"2012-01-11T08:28:06","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T08:28:06","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T08:28:06","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6527","title":{"rendered":"S.D.Fla.: Lawyered up defendant still consented to search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant lawyered up in the police station, but the officer kept on pressing for a DNA sample, which defendant voluntarily provided. United States v. Davis, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 2377 (S.D. Fla. January 9, 2012), R&amp;R 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 150909 (S.D. Fla. September 30, 2011):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Court finds that despite the officers&#8217; continued questioning and requests for a DNA sample after Davis invoked his right to an attorney, the totality of the circumstances outlined above \u2013 including the Magistrate Judge&#8217;s credibility determinations regarding the testimony of Davis and the forensic psychologist and the lack of any threats by law enforcement \u2013 show that Davis voluntarily provided his consent to the search.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When officers knocked at the screen door, defendant\u2019s father told them to come in, and that was consent to enter. It doesn\u2019t matter that the officer opened the screen door. Once inside, he consented to a \u201cquick search\u201d of the premises. United States v. Downwind, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 150963 (D. Minn. October 24, 2011).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6527\">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-6527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6527","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=6527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}