United States v. George E. Garcia

How courts have described this case

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• stating voluntariness test in terms of whether the police officer “had a reasonable basis for believing that there had been consent to the search”
• “ ‘The standard for measuring the scope of a [person’s] consent under the Fourth Amendment is that of ‘objective’ reasonableness — what would the typical reasonable person have understood by the exchange between the officer and the [person]?’ ”
• lack of awareness that one has a right to refuse consent to enter is germane to determination of whether officers had reasonable basis for believing that there had been consent to search only if such lack of awareness resulted in consent that was the product of duress or coercion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).