{"id":25541,"date":"2017-01-30T07:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T12:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=25541"},"modified":"2017-01-30T07:00:59","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T12:00:59","slug":"ky-sw-moots-consent-argument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=25541","title":{"rendered":"KY: SW moots consent argument"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officers entered defendant\u2019s home to secure a firearm and then returned with a search warrant. Defendant\u2019s consent argument is moot. <a href=\"http:\/\/162.114.92.72\/COA\/2015-CA-000451.pdf#xml=http:\/\/162.114.92.72\/dtsearch.asp?cmd=pdfhits&#038;DocId=28707&#038;Index=D%3a%5cInetpub%5cwwwroot%5cindices%5cCourt%5fof%5fAppeals%5fIndex&#038;HitCount=3&#038;hits=18+41+123+&#038;hc=123&#038;req=lundy\">Lundy v. Commonwealth<\/a>, 2017 Ky. App. LEXIS 22 (Jan. 27, 2017).<\/p>\n<p>The court properly overruled defendant\u2019s motion to suppress a safety patdown that produced $101 in cash. \u201cHere, the officer&#8217;s search of petitioner&#8217;s person and seizure of the currency were non-intrusive means that were \u2018necessary in the circumstances to ensure the suspect &#8230; [was] not armed.\u2019 David, 205 W. Va. at 397, 518 S.E.2d at 401.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courtswv.gov\/supreme-court\/memo-decisions\/spring2017\/15-1196memo.pdf\">State v. Fidler<\/a>, 2017 W. Va. LEXIS 28 (Jan. 27, 2017)* (memorandum) [How currency is seizable in a mere safety search is beyond me since it\u2019s not a weapon. It is, however, admissible if it was the product of a search incident to the arrest because $101 was given defendant by the CI. Right result, wrong reason, but this appears settled in WV.]<\/p>\n<p>Defendants were suspected of being involved in a shooting outside a federal building. One defendant can\u2019t move to suppress the seizure of a gun from the person of a codefendant. Officers following them suspected a gun was transferred between them as they walked away from the scene, and that justified their frisk. United States v. Cabreras-Ca\u00f1uelas, 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 182929 (D.P.R. Oct. 3, 2016).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officers entered defendant\u2019s home to secure a firearm and then returned with a search warrant. Defendant\u2019s consent argument is moot. Lundy v. Commonwealth, 2017 Ky. App. LEXIS 22 (Jan. 27, 2017). The court properly overruled defendant\u2019s motion to suppress a &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=25541\">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":[26,96,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-search-incident","category-standards-of-review","category-standing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25542,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25541\/revisions\/25542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}