Opinion ID: 1443932
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Even without the Police Officer's Participation, the Evidence Would Have Been Found.

Text: Finally, we examine whether Donald's consent to Corporal Hake's request to join the probation officers in the search is relevant on appeal. Donald contends that she believed she had no choice but to consent to the request from the police officer to join the search with the probation and parole officers because the probation officers were in her home and had begun their search. She challenges the voluntariness of her consent to Corporal Hakes' request to join in the search of the premises. We do not need to consider the merits of this claim. Even if we were to accept her argument that her consent to Corporal Hake's search was invalid, the outcome here would not be different. The seized evidence was in plain view. Donald has not shown that the probation officers would not have found the evidence, nor has she shown that Corporal Hake was in a unique position to discover the evidence.