Rodgers, J. v. Jewett, M.

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming the district court’s finding that the defendant consented to a search by simply lowering his arms even though the Court would have reached a different conclusion if it were the finder of fact
• “The precise question is not whether [the defendant] consented subjectively, but [objectively] whether his conduct would have caused a reasonable person to believe that he consented.”
• district court judge’s “credibility findings are well-nigh unreviewable, so long as the findings are not internally inconsistent or based on testimony that is incoherent, implausible, or contradicted by objective evidence in the case.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).