Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Pena v. United States

Pena v. United States, 501 U.S. 1207 (1991)

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1991-06-10
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • where defendant consented to officer’s request to “look” in his car and then walked away and did not object as officer began to remove panel from car, search was conducted within general scope of consent
  • uncommunicated plan irrelevant to issue whether defendant was “in custody”
  • involving a Wyoming traffic stop

Citator

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C. A. 10th Cir. Certiorari denied.