Baldwin v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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17 state decisions

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1. “Deputy Smith believed that appellant's answer to a question regarding the location of his identification constituted permission to retrieve that identification. We find this belief to be objectively unreasonable. Appellant's response was simply an answer to the officer's question (after being handcuffed) and not a consent for the officer to search his person.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Weaver

2. “'Probable cause' is a greater level of suspicion than 'reasonable suspicion' and requires information that is more substantial in quality or content and a greater reliability with respect to the source of information.... Probable cause is a relatively high level of suspicion, though it falls far short of a preponderance of the evidence standard.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Cortez

3. “). 84 . Black’s Law Dictionary 276 (5th ed.1979). 85 . See Kaupp v. Texas, 538 U.S. 626, 631 , 123 S.Ct. 1843 , 155 L.Ed.2d 814 (2003) (mere submission to a claim of lawful authority is not consent); Katz v. United States, 389 U.S. 347 , 358 & n. 22, 88 S.Ct. 507 , 19 L.Ed.2d 576 (1967) (stating that”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Thompson, Ex Parte Ronald