People v. Mathews’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “until after seizing the cell phone, so it was the officer's failure to do a record check, not the provision of a false name, that prevented the officer from learning of the search condition. We do not agree with either the trial court or Mathews about the relevant point in time after which a defendant who provides a false name to a police officer is estopped under Watkins from challenging the validity of a search or seizure. The court ruled that estoppel was triggered when Mathews gave a false name , and Mathews argues that it was triggered when Officer Ballard-Geiger ran the record check on”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Mathews

2. “until up to 20 minutes after Mathews gave the name to him, and the officer received the results a few minutes after running the check. Until Officer Ballard-Geiger actually ran the record check and received the results, the false name did not prevent him from discovering the search condition. We therefore conclude that Mathews is estopped from challenging the seizure of the cell phone and the evidence derived from it only if the seizure occurred after 6:36 p.m., when Officer Ballard-Geiger received the results of the record check on”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Mathews

3. “the clothing and phone. At the hearing on the motion to suppress, Mathews argued that all of this evidence was obtained in violation of his Fourth Amendment rights because, among other reasons, Officer Ballard-Geiger was not aware of the search condition at the time he observed the clothing or wounds or seized the cell phone. The trial court found no such violation and denied the motion. Relying on Watkins , the court ruled that Mathews was estopped from seeking to suppress the evidence because”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Mathews