{"id":61524,"date":"2025-07-23T11:12:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T16:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61524"},"modified":"2025-07-23T11:12:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T16:12:42","slug":"oh9-grant-of-motion-to-suppress-off-bodycam-video-reversed-officers-testimony-not-inconsistent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61524","title":{"rendered":"OH9: Grant of motion to suppress off bodycam video reversed, officer&#8217;s testimony not inconsistent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The granting of the motion to suppress is reversed as not based on competent or credible evidence. The bodycam doesn\u2019t fully support the officer\u2019s testimony there were furtive movements before he got up to the driver\u2019s window, but the bodycam image is partly obscured by reflected light. [Actually, the bodycam doesn\u2019t make the officer\u2019s testimony false.] State v. Leneo, 2025-Ohio-2582 (9th Dist. July 23, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Failure to investigate a legally meritless search and seizure claim isn\u2019t ineffective assistance of counsel. People v. Miller, 2025 Mich. App. LEXIS 5735 (July 18, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant kind of got a Franks hearing within a motion to suppress hearing, and there\u2019s no substantial preliminary showing of knowing or reckless falsity. Denied. United States v. Stewart, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 138688 (E.D. Mo. July 21, 2025).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The granting of the motion to suppress is reversed as not based on competent or credible evidence. The bodycam doesn\u2019t fully support the officer\u2019s testimony there were furtive movements before he got up to the driver\u2019s window, but the bodycam &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61524\">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":[89,21,23,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-cameras","category-franks-doctrine","category-ineffective-assistance","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61524","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=61524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61525,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61524\/revisions\/61525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}