United States v. Shelby Lemmons

How courts have described this case

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

• limiting scope of consent when police told suspect they were looking for camera or recordings of neighbor’s window
• limiting scope of consent when police told suspect they were looking for camera or recordings of neighbor’s window
• finding that though the defendant originally only consented to a limited search of his trailer home, the defendant expanded the boundaries of the search by aiding officers in the search and showcasing evidence that had not been included in his original scope of consent
• “A policeman need not avert his eyes to what a suspect voluntarily puts before them”
• “The scope of consent is defined by gauging, under the totality of the circumstances, what a typical reasonable person would have understood it to be.” (internal citations omitted)
• “Although the consent form is probative of the voluntariness of [the defendant’s] consent, it helps little in determining its scope[,]” especially when the officer specified the object of the search.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).