United States v. Faustino Gutierrez-Mederos

How courts have described this case

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• holding the manner of a search is reasonable when “[t]he record indicate[d] that [the officer] did not pry open or break into the side panel ... [n]or ... force the loose cardboard divider apart, but rather pulled it back”
• “[notwithstanding the statistical evidence, appellant does not dispute that [officer] Anderson could not determine the ethnicity of the car’s occupants prior to the stop”
• holding the manner of a search is reasonable when “[t]he record indicate[d] that [the officer] did not pry open or break into the side panel . . . [n]or . . . force the loose cardboard divider apart, but rather pulled it back”
• “[W]e must assess what a reasonable person would have understood by the exchange between him and the trooper.”
• finding consent to be voluntary under similar circumstances
• finding consent to be voluntary under similar circumstances

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).