Port Royal Marine Corp. v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that actual authority requires that a “third party [have] access to the area searched”
• stating that “the trial court is in a unique position to evaluate witnesses’ credibility”
• finding valid consent when the consenting party was never asked not to look inside the searched containers and never forbidden to show them to others
• “Cleare’s ownership and actual possession of the trunk in his bedroom, coupled with his ready access to it, indicate that, at the very least, he retained common authority over it.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).