United States v. Joseph Chukwubike

How courts have described this case

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• holding that medical staff did not act as govern- ment agents where they acted on their own initiative to “search” the defendant but received some assistance from law enforcement officers in executing the search
• “Under normal cir- cumstances, of course, [medical staff] should have had their patient’s consent. But their judgment remained a medical one. It was not nullified by [the defendant’s] refusal to give per- mission.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).