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· 9/30/2011

LITTLE, DANIEL A. v. TOWN OF FABIUS ZONING BOARD OF APPE

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  • noting that the government must show more than “mere acquiescence” to authority
  • calling a minor “a newcomer to the law” and holding that her age “counsels against finding voluntary consent” to a search
  • finding the fact that the defendant was held for over an hour before she consented to the search to weigh in favor of involuntariness
  • explaining that the forfeiture rule “is born of the need ‘to ease appellate review by ensuring that district courts consider issues first, and to prevent surprise to litigants’” (quoting Great Am. Ins. Co. v. E.L. Bailey & Co., 841 F.3d 439, 443 (6th Cir. 2016))
  • \[I]t is within the ambit of our discretion to entertain [issues] not raised below.\
  • “[I]t is within the ambit of our discretion to entertain questions not raised below.”

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