United States v. Gerald Lee Edmondson

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• holding that entry was not consensual when consent was given only after agent with weapon drawn shouted, “FBI. Open up.”
• holding that entry was not consensual when consent was given only after agent with weapon drawn shouted, \FBI. Open up.\
• holding that a suspect’s consent to entry was coerced when FBI officers surrounded the front of the defendant’s apartment, with weapons drawn, and yelled, “FBI. Open the door.”
• finding that the defendant’s warrantless arrest in his home was illegal because his “consent” was based on a show of official authority by police officers
• suppressing evidence seized at the time of the arrest following entry obtained without consent or exigent circumstances
• suspect who answers knock of FBI agents but remains in the vestibule retains heightened protection

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).