{"id":41394,"date":"2019-12-24T11:18:48","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T16:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=41394"},"modified":"2019-12-24T11:18:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T16:18:48","slug":"md-defs-burden-to-prove-custody-but-he-didnt-testify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=41394","title":{"rendered":"MD: Def&#8217;s burden to prove custody, but he didn&#8217;t testify"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt was [defendant]&#8217;s burden to prove custody. &#8230; Payne opted to remain silent at the suppression hearing; therefore, we have been provided no contrast to the evidence given by Detective Patterson, upon which the court reasonably relied.\u201d The trial court\u2019s decision was not clearly erroneous. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.state.md.us\/data\/opinions\/cosa\/2019\/1649s17.pdf\">Payne v. State<\/a>, 2019 Md. App. LEXIS 1069 (Dec. 17, 2019).* [Take this one with a grain of salt.]<\/p>\n<p>A license plate check revealed that defendant\u2019s Trailblazer near the border hadn\u2019t crossed before, and the occupants were, by USBP standards and training, acting not normal. Also, the vehicle was riding too low for the number of passengers, and the officer thought there might be other people hidden inside. On the totality, there was reasonable suspicion for the stop. United States v. Velasquez, 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 217498 (D. Ariz. Oct. 23, 2019),* adopted, 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 216422 (D. Ariz. Dec. 16, 2019).*\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt was [defendant]&#8217;s burden to prove custody. &#8230; Payne opted to remain silent at the suppression hearing; therefore, we have been provided no contrast to the evidence given by Detective Patterson, upon which the court reasonably relied.\u201d The trial court\u2019s &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=41394\">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":[107,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration-arrests","category-seizure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41394","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=41394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41395,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41394\/revisions\/41395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}