United States v. Thomas D. Jensen

How courts have described this case

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• defendant challenged his stepfather’s consent to search car he was driving but that his stepfather owned
• disagreement between two officers as to when a conversation occurred did not make their testimony exceedingly improbable
• “The officers’ reasonable belief that the person consenting to the search had authority to do so is all that is necessary for a consent search to be valid.”
• “We defer to the trial court’s credibility determinations because ‘only the trial judge can be aware of the variations in demeanor and tone of voice that bear so heavily on the listener’s understanding of and belief in what is said.’ ”

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