Nicholson v. United States

Parentheticals

• holding consent to search valid when defendant who was houseguest informed police where he had hidden drugs and firearms in friend’s home to prevent police from “tearing] the place apart” in searching for contraband

  United States v. Pena

• noting authority that “once the Government establishes the existence of a prior conviction, the burden shifts to the offender to show that the conviction violated the Federal Constitution,” without deciding the question

  United States v. Kenneth Joseph Patrone

• “we have repeatedly held, Fed.R.Crim.P. 30 means what it says.”

  United States v. Julio Ernesto Arias-Santana

• three searches of curbside trash upheld

  State v. Sinapi