State v. Clark ( 2015 )


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    2015 UT App 289
    THE UTAH COURT OF APPEALS
    STATE OF UTAH,
    Appellee,
    v.
    DEBBRAH JO CLARK,
    Appellant.
    Opinion
    No. 20140262-CA
    Filed November 27, 2015
    Third District Court, West Jordan Department
    The Honorable Mark S. Kouris
    No. 131400401
    Lori J. Seppi and Heather J. Chesnut, Attorneys
    for Appellant
    Sean D. Reyes and Marian Decker, Attorneys
    for Appellee
    JUDGE JOHN A. PEARCE authored this Opinion, in which JUDGES
    JAMES Z. DAVIS and KATE A. TOOMEY concurred. 1
    PEARCE, Judge:
    ¶1     Debbrah Jo Clark appeals her conviction on one count of
    theft by receiving stolen property, a third degree felony. See Utah
    Code Ann. §§ 76-6-408, -412 (LexisNexis Supp. 2015). The State
    charged Clark after a police officer recovered a stolen driver
    license from the passenger seat of a truck in which Clark had
    been riding. Clark appeals, arguing there was insufficient
    evidence to connect her to the stolen license and that the district
    1. Judge James Z. Davis participated in this case as a member of
    the Utah Court of Appeals. He retired from the court on
    November 16, 2015, before this decision issued.
    State v. Clark
    court erred in denying her motion to suppress evidence. We
    affirm.
    BACKGROUND
    ¶2     Christian Hale, an associate of Clark’s, took Clark to a
    grocery store. Hale drove his single-cab pickup truck, while
    Clark sat on the passenger side of the truck’s bench seat. They
    parked, entered the store, and placed several packages of diapers
    in a grocery cart. Clark returned to the truck, while Hale took the
    unpurchased diapers to the store’s service desk and attempted to
    return them for a refund.
    ¶3     Because Hale lacked a receipt for the diapers, store
    personnel alerted Bobbie Davis, the store’s loss prevention
    specialist. Davis reviewed security footage of the couple walking
    through the store and observed them placing the diapers in the
    cart. Davis also recognized Clark from a prior occasion when
    Clark had used “somebody else’s identification” at the store.
    Davis called the police to report the attempted refund fraud and
    stopped Hale as he was leaving the store. Two police officers
    responded and took Hale into custody.
    ¶4     Davis told the officers that Clark was also involved in the
    refund fraud and that because Clark had previously used
    another person’s identification, Davis was unsure of Clark’s real
    name. The officers asked Davis to go to the parking lot and have
    Clark return to the store. By this time, Clark had moved Hale’s
    truck across the parking lot and was lying down on the truck’s
    bench seat, apparently sleeping with her head on the driver’s
    side. Davis woke Clark, and the two returned to the front of the
    store, where Clark accurately identified herself to one of the
    responding officers, Officer Brower. The officers arrested Clark
    on outstanding warrants.
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    ¶5      At this point, Hale remained in the back of a patrol car.
    Brower asked Hale what he wanted done with his truck. Hale
    gave Brower the keys with instructions to release the truck to
    one of Hale’s friends. Brower used Hale’s phone to locate
    someone willing to pick up the truck. Brower then waited by the
    truck for Hale’s friend to arrive. As he waited, Brower looked
    through the passenger side window of the truck and saw a
    driver license lying face down on the passenger seat.
    Remembering that there might be some question about Clark’s
    identity and thinking she would need her identification in light
    of her arrest, Brower opened the passenger door and retrieved
    the license. The license was not Clark’s but instead belonged to
    another woman (Victim). The license had been sitting atop a
    recent paystub bearing Victim’s name and address. A court
    document addressed to Clark was under the paystub. The stack
    of documents and the license were on the passenger side of the
    truck. Brower also observed an open purse on the passenger side
    floor of the truck, with items spilling out of it.
    ¶6     Brower contacted Victim, who stated that her purse had
    been stolen about a month earlier and that her driver license had
    been in the purse. Victim did not know Clark and had not
    authorized Clark or any other person to possess or use her
    driver license. Victim also indicated that she had never worked
    for the company that had issued the paystub in her name. Based
    on this information, the State charged Clark with theft by
    receiving Victim’s stolen driver license.
    ¶7      Before trial, Clark filed a motion to suppress the evidence
    of the stolen driver license and paystub, arguing that Brower
    violated the Fourth Amendment to the United States
    Constitution when he retrieved the license from Hale’s truck.
    The district court held an evidentiary hearing on Clark’s
    suppression motion. Because Brower was unable to attend,
    Davis, the grocery store’s loss prevention specialist, was the
    State’s only witness at the hearing.
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    ¶8     At the hearing, Davis testified about the events leading up
    to the discovery of Victim’s driver license. Over Clark’s hearsay
    objection, the district court allowed Davis to describe the
    exchange between Hale and Brower regarding Hale’s truck.
    Davis testified that she had overheard the conversation and that
    officers had
    asked [Hale] what about his truck outside, what he
    wanted done with it. He said, My keys are in my
    pocket and they said is there anything in it we
    should be concerned about? He said no and they
    said, Do you mind if we take a look? He said no
    and he gave them the keys and that’s—that was
    that.
    The district court overruled Clark’s hearsay objection, reasoning
    that reliable hearsay may be considered at suppression hearings.
    The district court then allowed further argument on whether the
    consent evidence should nevertheless be excluded as unreliable.
    After further hearings, the district court found that Davis’s
    testimony was reliable. The court then denied Clark’s motion to
    suppress, relying on Davis’s testimony to find that Hale had
    consented to the search of his truck. 2
    ¶9     Davis, Brower, and Victim were the only witnesses at
    Clark’s jury trial. The State’s only physical trial exhibits were the
    recovered license and paystub. Davis and Brower described the
    events surrounding Brower’s discovery of the license. Victim
    described the theft of her purse and reiterated that Clark did not
    have her permission to possess her license. At the close of the
    State’s case, Clark asked the district court for a directed verdict,
    2. The district court also ruled that Clark had standing, under the
    Fourth Amendment, to challenge the search of Hale’s truck. That
    ruling is not at issue on appeal.
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    arguing that the State had produced insufficient evidence to link
    her to the stolen license. The district court denied the motion.
    ¶10 The district court instructed the jury that it could find that
    Clark constructively possessed Victim’s driver license if the jury
    found “a sufficient nexus between the defendant and the item to
    permit a factual inference that the defendant had the power and
    the intent to exercise control over the item.” The district court
    also instructed the jury that it could consider the evidence that
    Clark had previously used “another person’s identification” to
    evaluate Clark’s intent but not as evidence of a criminal
    propensity. The jury convicted Clark on the single count of theft
    by receiving stolen property. Clark appeals.
    ISSUES AND STANDARDS OF REVIEW
    ¶11 Clark argues that the State presented insufficient evidence
    to prove that she constructively possessed the stolen driver
    license found in Hale’s truck. “‘[W]e review the evidence in the
    light most favorable to the verdict, and do not overturn a jury’s
    verdict of criminal conviction unless reasonable minds could not
    rationally have arrived at a verdict of guilty beyond a reasonable
    doubt based on the law and on the evidence presented.’” State v.
    Shepherd, 
    2015 UT App 208
    , ¶ 14, 
    357 P.3d 598
     (quoting State v.
    Bergwerff, 
    777 P.2d 510
    , 511 (Utah Ct. App. 1989)). “We may only
    reverse a guilty verdict for insufficient evidence when that
    evidence is so inconclusive or inherently improbable that
    reasonable minds must have entertained a reasonable doubt that
    the defendant committed the crimes underlying the
    convictions.” State v. Lucero, 
    2015 UT App 120
    , ¶ 6, 
    350 P.3d 237
    .
    ¶12 Clark also argues that the district court erred in denying
    her motion to suppress because the court relied on inadmissible
    evidence to find that Hale had consented to the search of his
    truck. “[W]e grant a trial court broad discretion to admit or
    exclude evidence and will disturb its ruling only for abuse of
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    discretion . . . .” State v. Gallup, 
    2011 UT App 422
    , ¶ 12, 
    267 P.3d 289
     (alteration in original) (citation and internal quotation marks
    omitted). Clark further argues that even if the consent evidence
    was admissible, it was not sufficiently reliable to support the
    district court’s finding that Hale granted consent to search his
    truck. “When reviewing a district court’s denial of a motion to
    suppress, the appellate court disturbs the district court’s findings
    of fact only when they are clearly erroneous.” State v. Baker, 
    2010 UT 18
    , ¶ 7, 
    229 P.3d 650
    .
    ANALYSIS
    I. Sufficiency of the Evidence
    ¶13 A jury convicted Clark of theft by receiving stolen
    property. A person commits theft by receiving stolen property if
    she
    receives, retains, or disposes of the property of
    another knowing that it has been stolen, or
    believing that it probably has been stolen, or . . .
    conceals, sells, withholds or aids in concealing,
    selling, or withholding the property from the
    owner, knowing the property to be stolen,
    intending to deprive the owner of it.
    Utah Code Ann. § 76-6-408(1) (LexisNexis Supp. 2015). Clark
    argues that the evidence presented at trial was insufficient to
    demonstrate that she received or retained Victim’s driver license,
    because the license was not found in her actual possession and
    the evidence at trial was insufficient to establish constructive
    possession.
    ¶14 The State did not contend that Clark actually possessed
    the stolen license but instead relied on a theory of constructive
    possession. “To establish constructive possession, the State must
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    ‘prove that there was a sufficient nexus between the accused and
    [an item] to permit an inference that the accused had both the
    power and the intent to exercise dominion and control over the
    [item].’” State v. Gonzalez-Camargo, 
    2012 UT App 366
    , ¶ 17, 
    293 P.3d 1121
     (quoting State v. Workman, 
    2005 UT 66
    , ¶ 31, 
    122 P.3d 639
    ). “Whether a sufficient nexus exists depends upon the facts
    and circumstances of each case.” 
    Id.
     (citation and internal
    quotation marks omitted).
    ¶15 Utah case law has identified several factors that may be
    useful in evaluating a conviction based on constructive
    possession: “whether the defendant owned or occupied the
    location where the contraband was found, whether the
    defendant had special or exclusive control over that area, any
    incriminating statements or behavior by the defendant, and
    previous possession of similar contraband by the defendant.”
    State v. Lucero, 
    2015 UT App 120
    , ¶ 7, 
    350 P.3d 237
    ; see also
    Workman, 
    2005 UT 66
    , ¶ 32 (providing that “presence of the
    defendant” near the location where the item was found and the
    defendant’s proximity to the item are two factors, among others,
    that “may be important” in determining whether the nexus is
    sufficient). “This list is not exhaustive, nor is each factor always
    pertinent.” Lucero, 
    2015 UT App 120
    , ¶ 7.
    ¶16 “[C]onstructive possession cannot be established solely by
    nonexclusive ownership or occupancy of the place where the
    contraband is found.” 
    Id. ¶ 12
    . Rather, a defendant’s non-
    exclusive occupancy of the premises—or in this case, the
    vehicle—where an item is discovered “must be combined with
    other evidence sufficient to establish the defendant’s knowing
    and intentional control” over the item. Gonzalez-Camargo, 
    2012 UT App 366
    , ¶ 17. In such cases, “the quantum of ‘other
    evidence’ needed to support an inference of power and intent to
    exercise dominion and control equals the quantum of evidence
    sufficient to eliminate reasonable doubt.” Lucero, 
    2015 UT App 120
    , ¶ 13.
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    ¶17 In this case, Victim’s stolen driver license was discovered
    in Hale’s truck. Although Clark had been the truck’s most recent
    occupant, both Hale and Clark had recently occupied the truck
    and had access to the passenger seat where Brower found the
    license. Neither Clark nor Hale was present when the license
    was discovered. There was no evidence before the jury that
    anyone besides Hale or Clark had occupied or possessed the
    truck. These facts, viewed alone, could give rise to a reasonable
    inference that either Clark or Hale—or both—possessed the
    stolen license. But standing alone these facts are insufficient to
    establish Clark’s possession of the license beyond a reasonable
    doubt. See 
    id. ¶ 12
    ; State v. Ashcraft, 
    2015 UT 5
    , ¶ 20 n.3, 
    349 P.3d 664
     (“[I]f the only connection between a defendant and the
    contraband is bare title or mere occupancy of the area in which it
    is found, there may be substantial room for reasonable doubt as
    to whether the contraband belongs to the defendant.”).
    ¶18 However, other evidence supports the jury’s conclusion
    that Clark constructively possessed Victim’s stolen license. The
    license was found on top of a paystub bearing Victim’s name
    and address, leading to the reasonable inference that someone
    had used Victim’s license to obtain the check, cash it, or both.
    Victim denied any knowledge of the check, and as between
    Clark and Hale, it was reasonable for the jury to infer that Clark,
    rather than Hale, would have used a woman’s driver license to
    obtain employment or cash a paycheck in Victim’s name.
    ¶19 Brower also found the license and paystub on top of a
    court document bearing Clark’s name. On cross-examination,
    Brower confirmed that the license, paystub, and court document
    were “stacked together” on the seat of the truck. The discovery
    of Victim’s license, the paystub, and Clark’s court document
    together on the seat of the truck supports a reasonable inference
    that Clark had possessed all three items.
    ¶20 Finally, the jury heard evidence that Clark had previously
    used identification belonging to another person. The Utah
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    Supreme Court has identified a defendant’s previous possession
    of similar contraband as a factor that may support a finding of
    constructive possession. Cf. State v. Workman, 
    2005 UT 66
    , ¶ 32,
    
    122 P.3d 639
     (listing “previous drug use” as a factor in
    evaluating a defendant’s constructive possession of drugs). Here,
    the jury could have inferred that Clark’s prior misuse of
    another’s identification made it more likely that she intended to
    exercise dominion and control over Victim’s license. 3
    ¶21 Clark identifies various factors bearing on constructive
    possession that were present in other cases but are not present in
    this case. For example, in State v. Workman, the defendant’s
    fingerprints were found on a container used in a drug
    laboratory, supporting her conviction for operating a clandestine
    laboratory. See 
    id. ¶¶ 33
    –35. And in State v. Martin, the defendant
    was linked to methamphetamine found concealed in the seat
    crack of a police cruiser, when he was “the only person to
    occupy the back seat between the time the officer searched the
    patrol car at the beginning of his shift and the time the officer
    found the methamphetamine.” 
    2011 UT App 112
    , ¶ 3, 
    251 P.3d 860
    . But not every constructive-possession case will present
    every factor that might bear on the question. See Workman, 
    2005 UT 66
    , ¶ 32 (“[T]hese factors are not universally pertinent, and
    3. Clark argues the evidence of her prior use of false
    identification makes it less likely that she possessed Victim’s
    driver license. Clark reasons that if she possessed Victim’s
    license, she would have—consistent with her prior practice—
    used Victim’s license as false identification in furtherance of her
    and Hale’s diaper-refund scheme. Even if this inference can be
    considered reasonable, the jury could properly conclude that it
    was not a sufficiently strong inference to give rise to reasonable
    doubt. Cf. State v. Ramirez, 
    2012 UT 59
    , ¶ 13, 
    289 P.3d 444
     (“The
    relative strength of the competing inferences in this case was a
    question for the jury at trial.”).
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    we are mindful that no such list is exhaustive, and that listed
    factors are only considerations.” (citation and internal quotation
    marks omitted)). Rather, the test is whether the evidence
    presented in any particular case is sufficient to “permit a factual
    inference that the defendant had the power and the intent to
    exercise control over the [contraband].” State v. Lucero, 
    2015 UT App 120
    , ¶ 7, 
    350 P.3d 237
     (alteration in original) (citation and
    internal quotation marks omitted).
    ¶22 Here, Brower discovered Victim’s driver license on the
    passenger side seat of a truck most recently occupied by Clark.
    The license was “stacked together” with a court document
    bearing Clark’s name and was accompanied by a paystub,
    suggesting the license had been used to obtain and cash a
    paycheck in Victim’s name. There was no evidence that anyone
    besides Clark or Hale ever occupied the truck or possessed the
    stolen license. From these circumstances, the jury could
    reasonably infer that Clark had used the license to pass herself
    off as Victim to obtain employment and cash the paycheck. The
    State also presented the jury with evidence that Clark had used
    false identification in the past. Viewing the evidence in its
    totality, and applying reasonable inferences in favor of the jury’s
    verdict, “‘reasonable minds could . . . rationally have arrived at a
    verdict of guilty beyond a reasonable doubt based on the law
    and on the evidence presented.’” State v. Shepherd, 
    2015 UT App 208
    , ¶ 14, 
    357 P.3d 598
     (quoting State v. Bergwerff, 
    777 P.2d 510
    ,
    511 (Utah Ct. App. 1989)). Thus, sufficient evidence exists to
    support the jury’s finding that Clark received or retained
    Victim’s stolen driver license, beyond a reasonable doubt.
    II. Denial of Clark’s Motion to Suppress
    ¶23 Prior to her trial, Clark sought to suppress the evidence
    Brower found in Hale’s truck, claiming that Brower violated the
    Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution when he
    entered the truck’s cab without first obtaining a warrant. The
    district court denied Clark’s motion to suppress because it found
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    that Hale had consented to a search of his truck. The court based
    its finding on Davis’s testimony that she had overheard Hale tell
    officers that he did not mind if they looked in his truck. Clark
    argues that Davis’s consent testimony should have been
    excluded from evidence as unreliable hearsay. She also argues
    that even if the district court properly admitted the hearsay
    evidence, the testimony was not sufficiently reliable to establish
    Hale’s consent to the search.
    ¶24 “The Fourth Amendment to the United States
    Constitution guarantees ‘[t]he right of the people to be secure in
    their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable
    searches and seizures.’” State v. Maxwell, 
    2011 UT 81
    , ¶ 13, 
    275 P.3d 220
     (alteration in original) (quoting U.S. Const. amend. IV).
    “Although a person has a lesser expectation of privacy in a car
    than in his or her home, one does not lose the protection of the
    Fourth Amendment while in an automobile.” State v. Schlosser,
    
    774 P.2d 1132
    , 1135 (Utah 1989) (citation omitted). A police
    officer’s opening of a vehicle’s door can constitute a search
    under the Fourth Amendment. See 
    id. at 1135
    –36.
    ¶25 “Warrantless searches are per se unconstitutional under
    the Fourth Amendment unless conducted pursuant to a
    recognized exception to the warrant requirement.” State v.
    Bisner, 
    2001 UT 99
    , ¶ 43, 
    37 P.3d 1073
    . One such exception is a
    search conducted with consent. 
    Id.
     “Consent may come from the
    person whose property is to be searched, from a third party who
    has common authority over the property, or from a third party
    who has apparent authority to consent to a search of the
    property.” State v. Harding, 
    2011 UT 78
    , ¶ 10, 
    282 P.3d 31
    (citations omitted).
    ¶26 The district court ruled that Hale consented to a search of
    his truck when officers asked him if he minded if they “[took] a
    look” in the truck and Hale responded that he did not mind.
    Clark argues that Davis’s description of this exchange
    constituted unreliable hearsay that should not have been
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    admitted into evidence at the evidentiary hearing. 4 Clark
    concedes that the Utah Rules of Evidence do not apply at pretrial
    suppression hearings, see Utah R. Evid. 104(a), and that the
    district court could properly rely on hearsay evidence so long as
    it was reliable, see United States v. Matlock, 
    415 U.S. 164
    , 175–77
    (1974). However, Clark argues that Davis’s testimony did not
    constitute “reliable” hearsay and should therefore have been
    excluded. See 
    id. ¶27
     Clark asserts that Davis’s testimony was unreliable for a
    host of reasons. Clark argues that Davis was not a “neutral
    reporter,” see State v. Branch, 
    743 P.2d 1187
    , 1189 (Utah 1987); 5
    that Davis’s testimony was “filtered” through her memory and
    recollection, see id.; and that Davis’s memory may have been
    biased due to her negative history with Clark, her close ties to
    the prosecution, and her interest in seeing Clark prosecuted, see
    id.; cf. State v. Ashe, 
    745 P.2d 1255
    , 1270 (Utah 1987) (Durham, J.,
    4. The State does not contest Clark’s characterization of Davis’s
    testimony as hearsay. See Utah R. Evid. 801(c) (defining hearsay
    as a statement that “the declarant does not make while testifying
    at the current trial or hearing” and that “a party offers in
    evidence to prove the truth of the matter asserted in the
    statement”).
    5. State v. Branch, 
    743 P.2d 1187
     (Utah 1987), addressed a type of
    evidence—eyewitness identification testimony—that has its own
    very particular set of reliability issues. See 
    id. at 1188
    –91. See
    generally State v. Clopten, 
    2009 UT 84
    , ¶ 49, 
    223 P.3d 1103
    (providing that, in some circumstances, expert testimony on the
    reliability of an eyewitness identification should be “routinely
    admitted”); State v. Ramirez, 
    817 P.2d 774
    , 779–84 (Utah 1991)
    (discussing the reliability of eyewitness identification testimony
    following a suggestive police show-up). Factors that bear on the
    reliability of eyewitness identifications may or may not bear
    equally on other questions of reliability.
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    dissenting) (suggesting that officers “engaged in the often
    competitive enterprise of ferreting out crime” may fail to
    objectively evaluate the circumstances justifying an intrusion
    into a constitutionally protected area (citation and internal
    quotation marks omitted)). Clark relies on these factors to assert
    that Davis’s testimony was unreliable because it was “self-
    serving” and “clearly in [the State’s] interest.” (Citation and
    internal quotation marks omitted.)
    ¶28 Clark also argues that the record raises serious doubts
    about the accuracy of Davis’s testimony because her description
    of Hale’s consent “was not corroborated,” see Roberts v. United
    States, 
    399 F. Supp. 2d 650
    , 653 (D. Md. 2005), and was not
    “memorialized in [a] police report,” see United States v. Boyce, 
    797 F.2d 691
    , 693 (8th Cir. 1986). She argues that Davis’s testimony
    was “directly disputed” by Brower’s preliminary hearing
    testimony, which made no mention of Hale explicitly granting
    consent, and by Brower’s actions in failing to immediately search
    the truck after allegedly receiving consent. See Roberts, 
    399 F. Supp. 2d at 653
    . Finally, Clark argues that she was denied the
    opportunity to confront and cross-examine the officer—
    presumably Brower—who questioned Hale and elicited
    permission to search the truck.
    ¶29 Clark has assembled an impressive list of concerns that
    courts have expressed, in varying contexts, when assessing
    witness reliability or lack thereof. However, we are not
    convinced that the district court erred in finding Davis’s
    testimony reliable in this case. See State v. Price, 
    827 P.2d 247
    , 250
    n.6 (Utah Ct. App. 1992) (“We defer to the trial judge’s
    determination ‘[b]ecause of the trial court’s position of
    advantage to observe witnesses’ demeanor and other factors
    bearing on credibility.’” (alteration in original) (quoting Ashe,
    745 P.2d at 1258)). Although we acknowledge Clark’s concerns
    about Davis’s neutrality, Davis testified under oath and under
    penalty of perjury. Clark also had the opportunity to cross-
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    examine Davis about her perception and interpretation of Hale’s
    statement, as well as about any bias that Davis may have had
    generally or against Clark in particular. During her cross-
    examination of Davis, Clark could have availed herself of the
    opportunity to explore the generalized concerns she now
    raises—that Davis was not a neutral reporter, that Davis’s
    testimony was filtered through her memory, and that Davis was
    biased against Clark because of their previous interaction. But
    Clark did not develop that record. We could speculate that
    Davis’s employment may have influenced her worldview such
    that one could surmise that she may not have been a completely
    neutral witness. But Clark has presented us with no reason to
    view Davis as so biased against her that we would, on appellate
    review, discount the district court’s first-hand evaluation of
    Davis’s credibility in relating Hale’s statement of consent.
    ¶30 We also reject Clark’s argument that Brower’s preliminary
    hearing testimony contradicted Davis’s testimony. Brower’s
    testimony partially corroborates Davis’s version of events—both
    witnesses testified that Hale voluntarily entrusted his truck
    and its keys to Brower. Further, because consent was not an
    issue at the preliminary hearing, neither the State nor Clark
    questioned Brower about Hale’s indication of consent to search
    the truck. 6 Brower’s failure to volunteer unrequested testimony
    about Hale’s consent does not equate to testimony by Brower
    that Hale did not consent to the search of his truck.
    ¶31 The circumstances of this case do not establish that
    Davis’s testimony was unreliable at all, much less so unreliable
    as to mandate its exclusion. We affirm both the district court’s
    finding that Davis’s testimony was reliable and its decision to
    admit the testimony.
    6. Clark did not file her motion to suppress until after the
    preliminary hearing.
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    ¶32 Clark also argues that, even if Davis’s testimony was
    admissible, it was insufficiently reliable to support a finding of
    Hale’s consent. Clark acknowledges that the district court’s
    finding of consent is a factual finding that we will not overturn
    absent a showing that the finding is “clearly erroneous.” See
    State v. Hansen, 
    2002 UT 125
    , ¶ 48, 
    63 P.3d 650
    . “[W]e will set
    aside a factual finding only if it is against the clear weight of the
    evidence or we reach a definite and firm conviction that a
    mistake has been made.” State v. Cater, 
    2014 UT App 207
    , ¶ 10,
    
    336 P.3d 32
     (citation and internal quotation marks omitted).
    ¶33 In support of her argument that the district court’s
    finding was clearly erroneous, Clark reiterates the same reasons
    and authority that she identified in arguing that Clark’s
    testimony was inadmissible due to unreliability. For all of the
    reasons that we rejected Clark’s inadmissibility argument, we
    also conclude that Davis’s description of Hale’s consent was
    sufficiently reliable to support the district court’s consent
    finding.
    CONCLUSION
    ¶34 Clark has failed to establish that the State’s evidence was
    insufficient to convict her, as the evidence was sufficient for the
    jury to find, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Clark received or
    retained Victim’s stolen driver license. Clark has also failed to
    establish that the district court erred when it denied her motion
    to suppress.
    ¶35    Affirmed.
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    2015 UT App 289