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· 5/26/1988

United States v. Patsy Marie Galberth

Citations

  • 846 F.2d 983
  • 1988 U.S. App. LEXIS 11784
  • 1988 WL 51969

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that fifteen minute to twenty minute stop of car was Terry stop, and not arrest, where “defendants were not handcuffed or placed in a squad car”
  • noting officer’s instruction that defendant be “pat [ ] down for ‘possible narcotics’” effected a seizure
  • citing, Hoffa v. United States, 385 U.S. 293, 310, 87 S.Ct. 408, 417, 17 L.Ed.2d 374 (1966
  • noting officer’s instruction that defendant be “pat [ ] down for ‘possible narcotics’” effected a seizure
  • “The district court’s finding of a valid consent to be searched is not outweighed by the fact that Galberth was never told that she had the right to withhold her consent[.]”
  • “Galberth’s nervousness . . . does not preclude a finding of voluntariness[.]”

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Judges: Gee, Rubin, Smith

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