United States v. Vinette Crowley, Jerry Hallgren, and William Crowley

How courts have described this case

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• instructing courts to determine whether a private party is acting as an instrument or agent of the government “on a case-by-case basis in light of all the circumstances”
• “The mere fact that the police witness a private party’s search does not transform the private party into a governmen- tal agent.”
• whether the private party’s purpose for conducting the search was for own ends or to assist law enforcement efforts is critical to agency determination
• fact that another individual played “relatively greater role in the conspiracy” did not make decision to deny downward adjustment clearly erroneous

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).