{"id":8043,"date":"2013-07-02T06:46:18","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T07:02:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T07:02:24","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8043","title":{"rendered":"CA6: Clearly erroneous explained again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crediting the officers\u2019 testimony that defendant consented to a patdown that produced a sawed-off shotgun was not clearly erroneous. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca6.uscourts.gov\/opinions.pdf\/12a1227n-06.pdf\">United States v. Oldham<\/a>, 506 Fed. Appx. 465 (6th Cir. 2012). Clearly erroneous explained:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The district court did not commit clear error in crediting the officers&#8217; testimony that the encounter and pat-down search were consensual. Nothing in the officers&#8217; reports, in their testimony, or in any evidence contradicts their version of the events.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There &#8216;can virtually never be clear error&#8217; where the &#8216;trial judge&#8217;s finding is based on [her] decision to credit the testimony of one of two or more witnesses, each of whom has told a coherent and facially plausible story that is not contradicted by extrinsic evidence,&#8217; and where that finding is &#8216;not internally inconsistent.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Brooks v. Tennessee, 626 F.3d 878, 897 (6th Cir. 2010) (quoting Anderson v. City of Bessemer City, N.C., 470 U.S. 564, 575 (1985)). The district judge credited the officers&#8217; testimony, which is uncontradicted by anything but Oldham&#8217;s testimony. That determination cannot constitute clear error.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8043\">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-8043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8043","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=8043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}