United States v. Tithing Yard & Offices

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the reasonableness of the police’s belief in the driver’s authority to consent to the tote bag search “could have been dispelled if, for example, either [the passenger or the driver] had indicated that the Tote Bag ... was his.”
• “[T]he officer requested—and [the suspect] provided—consent to search ‘the vehicle and the contents therein.’ Given the broad scope of that consent, it was objectively reasonable for the officer to believe that it covered the bags inside the car.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).