Opinion ID: 760821
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Defense Witnesses' Testimony

Text: 13 According to Ivy and Jones' testimony at the suppression hearing, Officer Harvey did not simply ask Ivy for identification, but rather used physical force to gain entrance. Officer Harvey shoved Ivy against an interior wall, forced his arm behind his back, and demanded some identification. 14 Further, Ivy maintained, a full hour and a half passed between the initial request for consent and his signing the consent form. During this time, Jones was handcuffed to the kitchen table by her legs, and at points Officer Holloway took Jones' child from her. Ivy testified that when he first refused to sign the consent form, Sergeant Setliff said I could be a man about it and sign the consent and let my wife, my fiancee and baby go or I could let them go to jail with me or I could be a fool and let everybody in the house go to jail. After Ivy initially refused, Sergeant Setliff asked Jones to sign a consent to search form. When she also declined to do so, Jones testified, the sergeant told her that refusal to sign would mean the police would take her child away, that she would no longer be able to see the child and that she would go to jail. 15 Immediately after Jones' refusal, the police asked Ivy for a second time to sign the consent form. Again, he refused. Ivy testified that Sergeant Setliff responded that he would obtain a search warrant regardless of Ivy's consent and that I could be a man about it and just release them and let them not go to jail or I could just be a fool and let everybody go to jail. Finally, upon the police's third request, Ivy acquiesced and signed the form. 16