The lawyer this guy is going to hire will absolutely shred a non-consent search.
You'd think cops would know better. Because when your case gets shredded, it establishes case law. Once a precedent is established it essentially becomes 'law'.
I did a vehicle stop once. My lazy ass partner walks up and just opens the door of the vehicle, didn't bother with asking for anything. I told the driver, have a nice day, closed the door on my partner and walked back to my truck. He asked why I did that. I said, even if there was a thousand pounds of cocaine in the vehicle, you shit all over my stop and I didn't want to have to explain his retard mistake to my boss, the USA, and Chief Counsel.