United States v. Carlos Garcia and Jose Luis Garcia

How courts have described this case

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

• opening of door panels during search “is inherently invasive” and extends beyond scope of general consent to search
• “If an individual has the owner’s permission to use property, society surely recognizes this as reasonable.”
• “There is nothing in the record that indicates Carlos was motivated by a desire to curry favor with his interrogators.”
• driver using vehicle with the permission of an absent owner has a reasonable expectation of privacy therein
• consent in response to police request to look inside truck for “drugs or weapons in the truck” did not justify “inherently invasive” police removal of door panels
• officers peered through window slot in door panels and removed door panel

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).