{"id":38508,"date":"2019-07-11T06:01:57","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T11:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=38508"},"modified":"2019-07-11T06:02:40","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T11:02:40","slug":"reason-volokh-conspiracy-the-property-in-property-problem-in-fourth-amendment-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=38508","title":{"rendered":"Reason: Volokh Conspiracy: The Property-in-Property Problem in Fourth Amendment Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reason: Volokh Conspiracy: <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2019\/07\/11\/the-property-in-property-problem-in-fourth-amendment-law\/\">The Property-in-Property Problem in Fourth Amendment Law<\/a> by Orin Kerr:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A tale of two new cases on your constitutional rights when you leave your backpack with your drugs in someone else&#8217;s car.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A common problem in Fourth Amendment law that Supreme Court cases leave surprisingly unresolved is what you might call the &#8220;property-in-property&#8221; problem.  It runs like this.  Say a person has evidence of crime A that he puts inside his own bag or backpack or other container B.  Our person then puts B inside a house, car, or other place C that they don&#8217;t own or otherwise lawfully control.  The police search place C, and they find container B.  The police then search container B and find evidence A. That leads to charges, and a Fourth Amendment dispute over the admissibility of evidence A.<\/p>\n<p>The property-in-property problem raises two interesting legal questions.  First, if the person is charged, does he have standing to challenge the search of his own property B that ultimately revealed evidence A?  And second, can the owner of place C consent to a search of property B to find A?<\/p>\n<p>Two recent decisions on this issue point in different directions, and I think it&#8217;s interesting to see if we can reconcile them. Let&#8217;s take the two issues in turn.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reason: Volokh Conspiracy: The Property-in-Property Problem in Fourth Amendment Law by Orin Kerr: A tale of two new cases on your constitutional rights when you leave your backpack with your drugs in someone else&#8217;s car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38508","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=38508"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38510,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38508\/revisions\/38510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}