Legal Opinion
United States v. Jose Luis Sanchez, United States of America v. Jose Chaviano
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 24, 1994No. 94-1023, 94-1025PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FRIEDMAN, Senior Circuit Judge.
The principal issue is whether the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska ** correctly denied the appellants’ motion to suppress cocaine and other evidence seized from a tractor-trailer they were driving in Nebraska following a search of the vehicle to which they had consented. They contend that their consent was not voluntary and therefore was invalid. We uphold the search because the district court’s finding that the state officer who made it reasonably believed that the appellants had consented to the search is not clearly erroneous. We…
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