Court Opinion

ID: 9499049
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 17:36:35.348728+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:59:15.396430
License: Public Domain

B. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge,
dissenting in part:
I concur in the majority opinion in all respects except I dissent from the need for remand to determine whether coercion prevented McWeeney from exercising his right to withdraw his consent. McWeeney *1038and Lopez were told by uniformed officers to face away from the car so that they could not see the search. When one of them peeked over his shoulder he was told in no uncertain terms to turn back. What more “coercion” was needed to prevent them from determining what was going on? To require the district court to consider a laundry list of factors is nonsensical. Any reasonable person would recognize that two punk kids ordered out of their car, by police officers, told to turn their backs while their car is searched are afraid to disobey authority. Accordingly I dissent from the remand.