Tenth Circuit· 5/17/1996

United States v. Smythe

Citations

84 F.3d 1240
1996 U.S. App. LEXIS 11454
1996 WL 262812

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‘[K]nowledge and acquiescence . . . encompass the requirement that the government must also affirmatively encourage, initiate or instigate the private action.’ . . .
“to make private conduct into state action, government agent must ‘affirmatively encourage, initiate, or instigate the private action’ ”
to make private conduct state action, government agent must “affirmatively encourage, initiate, or instigate the private action”
for private search to be state action, government must “affirmatively encourage, initiate or instigate the private action”
“tests that determine only whether or not a substance is a controlled substance” are not searches within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment
officer's knowledge of and acquiescence to the search satisfies the requirement that the government agent affirmatively encourage, initiate, or instigate the private action

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Judges: Ebel, Kelly, Lucero

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