{"id":50659,"date":"2021-12-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=50659"},"modified":"2021-12-04T12:42:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T17:42:29","slug":"ca6-failure-to-object-to-co-occupants-apparent-consent-supported-consent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=50659","title":{"rendered":"CA6: Failure to object to co-occupant’s apparent consent supported consent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An occupant of defendant\u2019s house with apparent authority consented to an entry. When the officers expressed an interest in defendant\u2019s cell phone, he didn\u2019t voice any concerns. \u201cHe maintains that the male occupant’s invitation to the officers to enter Mason’s room did not diminish his expectation of privacy there. But the question is not whether Mason had a reasonable expectation of privacy in the room. The question is whether Officer Miller reasonably relied on the male occupant’s consent and apparent authority in entering the room. \u2026 He did. The man’s actions suggested that he had \u2018joint access or control\u2019 of the room for most purposes. See Matlock, 415 U.S. at 171 n.7.\u201d United States v. Mason<\/a>, 2021 U.S. App. LEXIS 35757 (6th Cir. Dec. 1, 2021).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Five CIs corroborated each other for probable cause. United States v. Bettelyoun, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 231836 (D.S.D. Dec. 3, 2021).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An occupant of defendant\u2019s house with apparent authority consented to an entry. When the officers expressed an interest in defendant\u2019s cell phone, he didn\u2019t voice any concerns. \u201cHe maintains that the male occupant’s invitation to the officers to enter Mason’s … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,44,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consent","category-informant-hearsay","category-probable-cause"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50659","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50660,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50659\/revisions\/50660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}