{"id":23855,"date":"2016-09-25T00:02:55","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T05:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23855"},"modified":"2016-09-24T15:37:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-24T20:37:32","slug":"ca7-family-computer-that-everybody-knew-password-to-gives-common-authority-to-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23855","title":{"rendered":"CA7: Family computer that everybody knew password to gives common authority to all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The computer in the house belonged to defendant but it was a family computer and everybody knew the password. That being the case, any one of them had common authority over the computer to consent to its search. The fact that the consenter was moving out doesn\u2019t mean that common authority ended. <a href=\"http:\/\/media.ca7.uscourts.gov\/cgi-bin\/rssExec.pl?Submit=Display&#038;Path=Y2016\/D09-23\/C:15-3109:J:Sykes:aut:T:fnOp:N:1834081:S:0\">United States v. Wright<\/a>, 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 17429 (7th Cir. Sept. 23, 2016).<\/p>\n<p>Defendant\u2019s arrest for OVI inevitably led to the inventory search of his vehicle. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourt.ohio.gov\/rod\/docs\/pdf\/2\/2016\/2016-Ohio-6958.pdf\">State v. Mack<\/a>, 2016-Ohio-6958, 2016 Ohio App. LEXIS 3813 (2d Dist. Sept. 23, 2016).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The computer in the house belonged to defendant but it was a family computer and everybody knew the password. That being the case, any one of them had common authority over the computer to consent to its search. The fact &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23855\">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":[30,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apparent-authority-2","category-inventory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23856,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23855\/revisions\/23856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}