{"id":63579,"date":"2026-03-17T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63579"},"modified":"2026-03-16T16:31:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T21:31:04","slug":"in-state-rule-that-consent-to-search-carries-with-it-a-right-to-consult-counsel-doesnt-apply-to-police-in-another-state-acting-on-their-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63579","title":{"rendered":"IN: State rule that consent to search carries with it a right to consult counsel doesn&#8217;t apply to police in another state acting on their own"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Conflict of laws: Indiana\u2019s Pirtle rule that consent searches afford a right to consult with counsel doesn\u2019t apply to police in another state that encounter defendant and get consent to search. <a href=\"https:\/\/public.courts.in.gov\/Decisions\/api\/Document\/Opinion?Id=3WnJWARUW0gc5lw4QALErmSq9KpmgHhnfslx7lg4xj8ppqzU__UJh0IC5EFrk37u0\">Mendenhall v. State<\/a>, 2026 Ind. App. LEXIS 81 (Mar. 12, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant badly wrecked his car fleeing from the police. Six months later, defense counsel told the FBI that defendant didn\u2019t want it, so the FBI searched it finding his cell phone. That showed he had no reasonable expectation of privacy in it and the contents. United States v. Peterson, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 7569 (6th Cir. Mar. 13, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2254 petitioner claimed he satisfied the Stone exception for \u201csham legal process\u201d recognized by the Sixth Circuit, but he shows nothing to support it. McGee v. Warden, Belmont Corr. Inst., 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 52413 (S.D. Ohio Mar. 13, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conflict of laws: Indiana\u2019s Pirtle rule that consent searches afford a right to consult with counsel doesn\u2019t apply to police in another state that encounter defendant and get consent to search. Mendenhall v. State, 2026 Ind. App. LEXIS 81 (Mar. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63579\">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":[48,5,95,24,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-cell-phones","category-conflict-of-laws","category-consent","category-issue-preclusion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63579","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=63579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63580,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63579\/revisions\/63580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}