United States v. Delancy

How courts have described this case

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• examining the purpose and flagrancy prong in a third-party consent case in terms of whether the police misconduct was “made for the purpose of gaining consent”
• officers impermissibly uncovered gun in couch after protective sweep prior to placing defendant on couch and before obtaining valid consent from individual not in handcuffs
• no coercion because the plaintiff was not threatened with violence or removal of her children
• clear error review of district court’s factual findings, and de novo review of the court’s application of our law to those facts
• deter- mining that the defendant who did not object was not cov- ered by Randolph even though the defendant possibly con- sidered objection futile
• “[W]hen, acting in good faith, police obtain the knowing, intelligent, and voluntary consent of a third party without exploiting their unlawful [conduct] in any way, the purposes of the exclusionary rule would not be served by excluding valuable evidence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).