Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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14 state decisions

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1. “[W]e think the Court of Special Appeals was correct in Perkins in noting that, when deception or ruse directly induces consent for the police to enter an area in which the defendant has a reasonable expectation of privacy, the “quality” of that consent may be regarded as “eroded”—not necessarily destroyed or eliminated, but eroded. That is not an issue here, however. The principal, and decisive, distinction between this case and Perkins lies in the fact that the deception practiced by [the trooper] in this case—representing himself as a maintenance person desirous of checking the thermostat—induced nothing more than the opening of the door. [The defendant] concededly knew before he allowed [the trooper] and his colleagues to enter that they were police officers. [The trooper] asked for permission to enter and talk; after having identified himself prior to entry, he never misrepresented his purpose for requesting permission to enter. The entry that led to the observation in plain view of the marijuana cigarette and, upon appellant’s ensuing consent, discovery of the scale, the cocaine, and the cash was not induced by deception, either as to [the trooper]’s identity or purpose. The earlier deception that induced appellant to open the door had no erosive effect on the consent to enter or the consent to search.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Redmond v. State

2. “The earlier deception that induced appellant to open the door had no erosive effect on the consent to enter or the consent to search.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 984 So. 2d 592 - Luna-Martinez v. State