United States v. Ronald James Coleman

How courts have described this case

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• finding no state action where “police neither encouraged nor directed [the private party] to repossess the truck in a particular manner”; “[t]heir presence at the scene was not an indispensible prerequisite for repossession of the truck” but was “in furtherance of their official duties”
• no state action where police parked around corner from scene of repossession and were simply standing by in case of trouble
• because police did not “instigate, encourage, or participate” in private actor’s search, it was outside the scope of fourth amendment
• “[M]ere acquiescence by the police to ‘stand by in case of trouble’ was insufficient to convert the repossession of the truck into state action.”
• visual observation of interior of gas station from a public place

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).