United States v. Jack Mekjian

How courts have described this case

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• noting that, absent government encouragement or cooperation, state-action inquiry turns on “government knowledge that an illegal search was being conducted and that the government would be the beneficiary of such misconduct” (emphasis added)
• finding no Fourth Amendment violation in Government accepting records from private individual after individual’s search was held to be purely private
• eigh teen-month sentence; 15 days to be served in jail, followed by two years probation
• failure of § 1001 indictment to charge that defendant willfully made false statements
• discrepancies in records sufficient to support finding of false statement
• “Burdeau . . . has made it clear that the fourth amendment was intended as a restraint on the activities of the government and its agents and is not addressed to actions, legal or illegal, of private parties.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).