United States v. Corey Nobles

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• holding that whether an encounter between the police and the defendants was consensual is a question of fact
• holding that the defendant’s “ultimate lack of success for obstructing justice will not relieve his responsibility for his attempt to do so”
• reasoning that the ostrich instruction was unlikely to affect the jury’s consideration of the defendant’s own words indicating knowledge of drug possession
• rejecting the defendant’s argument that a split verdict demonstrated that the 7 See United States v. Johnson, 437 F.3d 665, 675 (7th Cir. 2006
• rejecting the defendant’s argument that a split verdict demonstrated that the evidence was insufficient to support his conviction
• listing categories of police-citizen encounters and Fourth Amendment requirements imposed on each of them

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).