''Bumper v. North Carolina'', 391 U.S. 543 (1968), was a

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case in which a search was struck down as illegal because the police falsely claimed they had a

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. This was tantamount to telling the subject that she had no choice but to

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. Justice

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delivered the decision for the 7-2 majority.

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