{"id":4565,"date":"2011-01-11T16:06:44","date_gmt":"2010-08-21T00:01:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T09:17:16","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=4565","title":{"rendered":"AL: 17-year-old could give third party consent to search parents home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a case of first impression, a 17-year-old in control of the house while her parents were away had sufficient control over the premises to consent to a search of the premises, surveying many cases. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lexisone.com\/lx1\/caselaw\/freecaselaw?searchType=citation&amp;fclSearch=2009+Ala.+Crim.+App.+LEXIS+62+&amp;action=FCLSearchCaseByCitation&amp;pageLimit=10&amp;format=CITE&amp;pageNumber=1&amp;sourceID=&amp;citation=2009+Ala.+Crim.+App.+LEXIS+62+&amp;searchTerm=\">Allen v. State<\/a>, 44 So. 3d 525 (Ala. Crim. App. 2009), Released,  Released for Publication August 2, 2010, Rehearing denied, 2009 Ala. Crim. App. LEXIS 206 (Ala. Crim. App., June 5, 2009). Lexis overview: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[A] minor child could provide valid third-party consent to a police request to search the house of the minor child&#8217;s parents when no parent was present when the Atkins test was met. The court found that the test was satisfied: 1) the 17-year old daughter lived there; 2) she had the right of access to the house and the right to invite others there&#8211;although the computer in her parents&#8217; bedroom was password-protected, they entered the password so that she could access the Internet while they were away; 3) it was reasonable for the officers to conclude that she had sufficient control over the house to consent; and 4) she exercised sufficient discretion to freely consent to the warrantless search.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=4565\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}