United States v. Russell Kinney

How courts have described this case

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

• rejecting argument that \the presence of the police transformed the nature of the search from a private search to a governmental search” and that the officers’ participation \exceeded the scope of the initial private search”
• “more than the mere presence of a police officer is necessary to constitute the government action required to implicate Fourth amendment concerns.”
• Girlfriend who had never opened defendant's locked closet lacked authority to consent to the search of the closet.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).