{"id":7123,"date":"2012-06-19T05:48:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-13T08:50:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-13T08:50:48","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7123","title":{"rendered":"TN: CODIS hit from prior arrest that had no conviction was still valid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant was convicted of rape and murder based on a CODIS hit. His previous DNA draw was the result of his Tennessee arrest on a Mississippi fugitive warrant for a violent offense there. While the Mississippi charge had been dropped, Tennessee was never told. He was actually a felon, so no harm, no foul. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsc.state.tn.us\/sites\/default\/files\/scottbradleyopn.pdf\">State v. Scott<\/a>, 2012 Tenn. Crim. App. LEXIS 302 (May 10, 2012).*<\/p>\n<p>The state concedes that the traffic stop that led to the smell of marijuana wasn\u2019t legal after all. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.in.gov\/judiciary\/opinions\/pdf\/05101202cld.pdf\">Riggle v. State<\/a>, 967 N.E.2d 522 (Ind. App. 2012).*<\/p>\n<p>The trial court apparently discounted the officer\u2019s testimony that defendant was following a tractor-trailer too close when the officer stopped him for a lack of proof of the traffic offense. When defendant refused to consent to a search, the officer got out a drug dog. The court of criminal appeals affirmed because the evidence does not preponderate against the finding. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsc.state.tn.us\/sites\/default\/files\/baldwinkevinopn.pdf\">State v. Baldwin<\/a>, 2012 Tenn. Crim. App. LEXIS 294 (May 10, 2012).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7123\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7123","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}