Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Thomas v. United States
471 U.S. 1021
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1985-04-15
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- merely advising a person that a search warrant can be obtained does not constitute coercion
- no coercion where an officer said he could obtain a warrant if consent were refused but there was ample evidence to support probable cause
- "consent is not likely to be held invalid where an officer tells a defendant *Page 218 that he could obtain a search warrant if the officer had probable cause upon which a warrant could issue"
Citator
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C. A. 6th Cir. Certiorari denied.