United States v. Curtis Barnett

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• holding that a defendant waived his Fourth Amendment rights as a condition of probation, and explaining that the defendant preferred to “experience the lesser restraint of probation” over “serv[ing] a prison sentence”
• explaining that plea agreement should not be interpreted in manner that would produce result the parties were unlikely to have agreed to
• explaining that probationer is free to waive constitutional rights in exchange for privilege of living outside prison so long as waiver is knowing and intelligent
• declaring that a choice between accepting probation as a term of a plea bargain is more valuable than the risk of going to prison following a trial
• finding waiver of Fourth Amendment rights by agreement to prospective warrantless searches as a term of probation
• “Nothing in the Fourth Amendment’s language, background, or purpose would have justified forcing Barnett to serve a prison sentence rather than to experience the lesser restraint of probation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).