U.S. v. HICKS

No. 09-2184.

650 F.3d 1058 (2011)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Christopher Daron HICKS, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 27, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Erica N. O'Neil (argued), Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Milwaukee, WI, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

James A. Walrath (argued), Attorney, Milwaukee, WI, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before KANNE, WILLIAMS, and TINDER, Circuit Judges.


TINDER, Circuit Judge.

This successive appeal picks up where we left off in United States v. Hicks, 539 F.3d 566, 571-72 & n. 1 (7th Cir.2008) (Hicks I). Did Milwaukee Police Detective Donald Brown base his threat to obtain a search warrant on "a legitimate belief" that police could obtain a warrant, or was it a pretextual threat potentially rendering the subsequent consent involuntary? In Hicks I, we instructed...

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