Legal Opinion
United States v. Eric Jermaine Spivey
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided June 28, 2017No. 15-15023PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAM PRYOR, Circuit Judge:
This appeal presents the question whether deception by law enforcement necessarily renders a suspect’s consent to a search of a home involuntary. Chenequa Austin and Eric Spivey shared a home and a penchant for credit-card fraud. And they both became crime victims. Their home was twice burgled, which each time they reported to the police. Two officers, one posing as a crime-scene technician, came to their house on the pretense of following up on the burglaries, but mainly, unbeknownst to them, to investigate them for suspected fraud. The police had already caught…
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