{"id":32094,"date":"2018-03-05T17:36:29","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T22:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=32094"},"modified":"2018-03-05T17:36:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T22:36:29","slug":"the-champion-breaking-blue-challenging-police-officer-credibility-at-motions-to-suppress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=32094","title":{"rendered":"The Champion: Breaking Blue: Challenging Police Officer Credibility at Motions to Suppress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Sellitti, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nacdl.org\/Champion.aspx?id=50389\">Breaking Blue: Challenging Police Officer Credibility at Motions to Suppress<\/a>, 41 The Champion (No. 10) 16 (Dec. 2017):<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Every time a police officer puts his left hand on the Bible, raises his right hand in the air, and swears to tell the truth and nothing but the truth, he is inviting the factfinder to judge his credibility. For defense attorneys operating in a world in which \u201cblue lives\u201d matter and police officers are revered as inherently trustworthy, this creates an uphill battle. That hill is steeper when it comes to motions to suppress evidence seized in searches with or without a warrant because it is the judge alone who decides whether the officer is telling the truth.<\/p>\n<p>The law will not save the day. Defense attorneys like to think that standards such as \u201cprobable cause\u201d and \u201creasonable suspicion\u201d are stalwart legal principles with clear definitions, but the case law tells a different story. These standards have been described by State and Federal courts as \u201cflexible,\u201d \u201cfluid,\u201d and \u201ccase dependent.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Sellitti, Breaking Blue: Challenging Police Officer Credibility at Motions to Suppress, 41 The Champion (No. 10) 16 (Dec. 2017):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-suppression-hearings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32094","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=32094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32095,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32094\/revisions\/32095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}