Dinesh B. Patel v. Patel & Patel, CPA Narendra Patel And Nilakumari Patel

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• holding that officers may not obtain consent to search through a “false claim of legal authority”
• holding that consent to search bags was coerced because the officer falsely “represented a drug-sniffing dog had alerted,” and the defendant stated, “Go ahead, you’re going to do it anyway.”
• concluding that the district court did not clearly err in finding that the defendants’ consent to search their bags was not voluntarily given where law enforcement officers misrepresented their authority to conduct a search
• “Simply telling a police officer to ‘go ahead’ with a search is not, in and of itself, proof of voluntary consent.”
• falsely telling a defendant who had refused to consent to search that drug-detection dogs had alerted on his luggage

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).