{"id":61554,"date":"2025-07-28T08:20:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T13:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61554"},"modified":"2025-07-28T08:20:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T13:20:04","slug":"d-conn-despite-officers-not-thinking-there-was-apparent-authority-to-consent-the-consenter-did-have-that-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61554","title":{"rendered":"D.Conn.: Despite officers&#8217; not thinking there was apparent authority to consent, the consenter did have that authority"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cThe Court recognizes that Officer Nunez and a female officer expressed ambivalence as to whether N.H. could consent to a search when she was not the registered owner of the Camry.\u201d Still, she had apparent authority to consent. United States v. Carter, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 142669 (D. Conn. July 25, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant\u2019s girlfriend had apparent authority to consent to a search for a firearm that he pulled on her during an argument in the apartment they shared. United States v. Smith, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 142481 (S.D.N.Y. July 25, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Getting defendant out of the vehicle so the officer could use Google translate to talk to him didn\u2019t violate the Fourth Amendment. United States v. Ceja-Torres, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 18662 (6th Cir. July 25, 2025).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Court recognizes that Officer Nunez and a female officer expressed ambivalence as to whether N.H. could consent to a search when she was not the registered owner of the Camry.\u201d Still, she had apparent authority to consent. United States &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61554\">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":[30,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apparent-authority-2","category-reasonableness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61554","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=61554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61555,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61554\/revisions\/61555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}