United States v. Allan Gale Cleaveland

How courts have described this case

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• holding a private person was not acting as an agent for the police when he had “a legitimate, independent motive apart from crime detection or prevention” for the search and the police participation in the search was not extensive
• holding a private person was not acting as an agent for the police when he had “a legitimate, independent motive apart from crime detection or prevention” for the search and the police participation in the search was not extensive
• dual motive to recover money and assist police permissible where government’s participation in private search not so extensive
• “There was no reason why the detective should have restrained [the employee] or discouraged him in his search because [the employee] never exceeded his authority under the Customer Service Agreement to go on to the property and inspect the meter.” (cleaned up)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).