Defendant claimed standing in his girlfriend\u2019s house because he regularly spent the night there. Her testimony was rejected because it sounded \u201cscripted\u201d and inherently unreliable because she claimed she didn\u2019t smell 100 pounds of marijuana in her basement even though she did laundry down there every night. Moreover, the court doubts she even lived there because the lease agreement didn\u2019t make sense, and she admitted there was a problem with it. United States v. Black, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 209507 (S.D. Ohio Dec. 20, 2017) (Treatise \u00a7 60.47 n.3).<\/p>\n
Defendant was stopped for speeding, driving a rental car rented by another. He gave a false name and social security number. The stop was extended two hours for the drug dog, and there was reasonable suspicion. United States v. Pinex, 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 25681 (9th Cir. Dec. 19, 2017).*
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Defense counsel wasn\u2019t ineffective for not further litigating a Playpen warrant that was doomed to fail. Gray v. United States, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 210998 (N.D. Ohio Dec. 22, 2017).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Defendant claimed standing in his girlfriend\u2019s house because he regularly spent the night there. Her testimony was rejected because it sounded \u201cscripted\u201d and inherently unreliable because she claimed she didn\u2019t smell 100 pounds of marijuana in her basement even though … Continue reading