{"id":65035,"date":"2026-10-17T09:51:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T14:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=65035"},"modified":"2026-10-17T09:51:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T14:51:19","slug":"ca6-knowing-passcode-to-cell-phone-shows-common-authority-over-it-to-consent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=65035","title":{"rendered":"CA6: Knowing passcode to cell phone shows common authority over it to consent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Defendant\u2019s friend had common authority over the phone to consent, including knowing the passcode. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov\/opinions.pdf\/26a0284p-06.pdf\">United States v. Cook<\/a>, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 31506 (6th Cir. Oct. 16, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant consented to the search of his cell phone left with an officer when he was going to his PO. United States v. Fetters, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 235678 (D. Kan. Oct. 14, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOfficers are not required to continue investigating once they have probable cause. See Stokes v. Bd. of Educ. of the City of Chi., 599 F.3d 617, 624 (7th Cir. 2010) (\u2018While an officer may not close his or her eyes to clearly exculpatory facts, the Fourth Amendment does not require an officer with probable cause to arrest to wait while pursuing further investigation.\u2019).\u201d United States v. Canfield, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 236651 (E.D. Wis. Oct. 15, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant\u2019s friend had common authority over the phone to consent, including knowing the passcode. United States v. Cook, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 31506 (6th Cir. Oct. 16, 2026). Defendant consented to the search of his cell phone left with an &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=65035\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[30,24,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apparent-authority-2","category-consent","category-probable-cause"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65035","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=65035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65036,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65035\/revisions\/65036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}