{"id":7769,"date":"2012-09-29T09:42:04","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T09:42:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T09:42:04","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7769","title":{"rendered":"TX8: Pre-<em>Gant<\/em> excessive SI not suppressed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant was stopped for not signaling a turn, and outstanding warrants were found. The search incident of the vehicle was unconstitutional, but it was permitted at the time (2007), so it was not suppressed. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.8thcoa.courts.state.tx.us\/opinions\/PDFopinion.asp?OpinionID=66109\">State v. Elias<\/a>, 2012 Tex. App. LEXIS 8094 (Tex. App. \u2013 El Paso September 26, 2012).*<\/p>\n<p>A mere allegation that defense counsel did not file a motion to suppress is inadequate. It must be shown that it mattered. \u201cThe record does not explain why trial counsel did not file a motion to suppress or present to the jury the argument Jane did not have authority to consent to the search. &#8230; Allegations of ineffective assistance of counsel must be firmly founded in the record.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.7thcoa.courts.state.tx.us\/opinions\/PDFopinion.asp?OpinionID=15485\">Kane v. State<\/a>, 2012 Tex. App. LEXIS 8124 (Tex. App. \u2013 Amarillo September 26, 2012).*<\/p>\n<p>Defendant was stopped when a game warden saw him fire a deer rifle from his vehicle. The rifle was in plain view at the time of the stop. He was a felon in possession, and the stop was valid. United States v. Lee, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 139724 (N.D. Okla. September 28, 2012).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7769\">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-7769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7769","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=7769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}