United States v. Dean Jenkins

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a driver of a tractor trailer had apparent authority to consent to a search of a trailer, even though he stated “It’s not up to me; I don’t own the stuff” before signing a consent form, when the surrounding circumstances suggested that he had such authority
• “Of course, if the consenter provides additional information, the context may change in such a manner that no reasonable officer would maintain the default assumption.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).