{"id":48151,"date":"2021-04-19T04:13:41","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T09:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=48151"},"modified":"2021-04-19T04:13:41","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T09:13:41","slug":"nc-state-has-burden-of-proof-brd-on-4a-harmless-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=48151","title":{"rendered":"NC: State has burden of proof BRD on 4A harmless error"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The state carries the burden of proving harmless error for a Fourth Amendment beyond a reasonable doubt. <a href=\"https:\/\/appellate.nccourts.org\/opinions\/?c=1&amp;pdf=40299\">State v. Scott<\/a>, 2021-NCSC-41, 2021 N.C. LEXIS 321 (Apr. 16, 2021).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The evidence supports that the person consenting had apparent and actual authority to consent to a search of a camper on his property. United States v. Story, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 72936 (D.S.D. Apr. 15, 2021).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant argues there wasn\u2019t enough for reasonable suspicion. The court goes deeper into all the facts. Thus, \u201cWhen the factors are viewed together, from the troopers&#8217; point of view, combined with their training and experience, they establish the requisite reasonable suspicion to approach Ms. Martinez Nunez and to briefly detain her (and the other codefendants) in order to investigate further. After doing so, they properly seized fourteen kilograms of cocaine.\u201d United States v. Nunez, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 72884 (W.D. Pa. Apr. 15, 2021).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shining a flashlight into an unmanipulated jacket pocket was not a search under the Oregon Constitution. <a href=\"https:\/\/cdm17027.contentdm.oclc.org\/digital\/collection\/p17027coll5\/id\/28597\/rec\/1\">State v. Peek<\/a>, 310 Ore. App. 587, 2021 Ore. App. LEXIS 495 (Apr. 14, 2021).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state carries the burden of proving harmless error for a Fourth Amendment beyond a reasonable doubt. State v. Scott, 2021-NCSC-41, 2021 N.C. LEXIS 321 (Apr. 16, 2021). The evidence supports that the person consenting had apparent and actual authority &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=48151\">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":[30,66,35,73,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apparent-authority-2","category-burden-of-proof","category-reasonable-suspicion","category-search","category-standards-of-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48151","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=48151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48152,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48151\/revisions\/48152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}