What is the test for the validity of consent to search?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Murray, F040933. (Cal. App. 2003):
Appellant contends that his alleged consent to search was the product of an illegal detention and coercion, and thus invalid. As explained above, appellant was not illegally detained. Nor was he coerced. In every case, the voluntariness of a consent is a factual question to be decided "in the light of all the circumstances." (People v. James (1977) 19 Cal.3d 99, 106, 137 Cal. Rptr. 447, 561 P.2d 1135.) The trial court's
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