{"id":29403,"date":"2017-09-25T04:14:01","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T09:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=29403"},"modified":"2017-09-25T04:45:43","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T09:45:43","slug":"wa-defs-new-crime-of-obstruction-wasnt-subject-to-suppression-for-illegal-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=29403","title":{"rendered":"WA: Def&#8217;s new crime of obstruction wasn&#8217;t subject to suppression for illegal arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is no general obligation to cooperate with the police, but there is a duty not to resist an arrest. Defendant\u2019s obstruction was a new crime not subject to a motion to suppress for the alleged prior illegality of the arrest. Defense counsel wasn\u2019t ineffective for not filing a motion to suppress for strategic reasons, and it would have lost on the merits anyway. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.wa.gov\/opinions\/pdf\/338584_pub.pdf\">State v. D.E.D.<\/a>, 2017 Wash. App. LEXIS 2135 (Sept. 19, 2017).<\/p>\n<p>District court did not clearly err in finding consent to search. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca4.uscourts.gov\/Opinions\/Unpublished\/174091.U.pdf\">United States v. Songlin<\/a>, 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 18283 (4th Cir. Sept. 21, 2017)* (Anders brief); <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca5.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/unpub\/16\/16-30212.0.pdf\">United States v. Rogers<\/a>, 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 18350 (5th Cir. Sept. 22, 2017).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no general obligation to cooperate with the police, but there is a duty not to resist an arrest. Defendant\u2019s obstruction was a new crime not subject to a motion to suppress for the alleged prior illegality of the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=29403\">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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exclusionary-rule"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29403","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=29403"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29412,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29403\/revisions\/29412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}