United States v. Jerry Albert Ford

How courts have described this case

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• concluding private person did not act as the government’s agent where there was no evidence that the government “openly encouraged or cooperated in the private citizen’s search”
• “There is no evidence that the Government had any pre-knowledge of the search nor that the agents openly encouraged or cooperated in the search.”
• Fourth Amendment applies to pri- vate parties acting as instrument of the government
• Government had no prior knowledge of search and did not encourage search

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).