United States v. James William Giannetta

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• focusing on the identity of decisionmaker in rejecting a “stalking horse” challenge to police officer’s involvement in probation search
• stating “a question of coercion would arise as to any contention that ‘agreement’ to a probation search condition constitutes a general consent to search”
• defining reasonable suspicion as a reasonable belief premised on specific and articulable facts rather than a mere hunch
• permitting search of probationer’s home on “reasonable suspicion” under specific court condition of release
• upon discovering incriminating material, probation officer “was justified in expanding the scope of the his probation search” to look for related matters
• “We express no opinion as to whether [search conditions without a reasonable- ness limitation] could routinely be imposed on all probationers.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).