{"id":9722,"date":"2014-03-29T07:28:47","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T07:59:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-05-10T08:01:43","modified_gmt":"2014-05-10T13:01:43","slug":"en-us-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9722","title":{"rendered":"CT: A suppression hearing is a search for the truth; reopening not abuse of discretion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A suppression hearing is a search for the truth, too, and the trial court acted within its discretion in permitting the state to reopen its proof. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jud.state.ct.us\/external\/supapp\/Cases\/AROcr\/CR310\/310CR3.pdf\">State v. Freeman<\/a>, 2013 Conn. LEXIS 363 (November 5, 2013).<\/p>\n<p>The search of the rental car was valid by probable cause and consent, and none of the defendants had standing as an authorized driver. <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ca3.uscourts.gov\/opinarch\/124235np.pdf\">United States v. Goode<\/a>, 550 Fed. Appx. 84 (3d Cir. 2013).*<\/p>\n<p>The search of the rental car was valid for lack of standing. Text messages from a seized cell phone were properly authenticated. [Apparently no motion to suppress the seizure of the text messages was filed.] <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ca3.uscourts.gov\/opinarch\/124300np.pdf\">United States v. Mebrtatu<\/a>, 543 Fed. Appx. 137 (3d Cir. 2013).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9722\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9722","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=9722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11502,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9722\/revisions\/11502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}