In re Daijah D.

We need not address the propriety of the challenged police conduct in questioning appellant after she walked away from a group of loud and disorderly teenagers as the police approached the group because the Feople failed to sustain their heavy burden of establishing that appellant’s consent to a search of her purse was voluntary and that she waived her constitutional rights (see Bumper v North Carolina, 391 US 543, 550 [1968]; People v Gonzalez, 39 NY2d 122 [1976]).

Consent is “a true act of the will, an unequivocal product of an essentially free and unconstrained choice. Voluntariness is…