Commonwealth v. Voisine

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• consent valid when the form of communication was pointing in the direction of a bedroom, rather than speaking
• fact that a person communicated her consent by pointing in the direction of the bedroom where the defendant was hiding, rather than by speaking, is of no effect
• consent to enter valid when communicated by pointing in direction of bedroom
• a woman who was the lessee of the premises and with whom the defendant had stayed overnight two or three times in the days prior to his arrest had the authority to give consent
• the defendant pointed in the direction of the bedroom
• girlfriend pointed in direction of bedroom where defendant was hiding

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).