{"id":63627,"date":"2026-03-18T17:05:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T22:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63627"},"modified":"2026-03-19T04:54:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T09:54:27","slug":"mt-owner-of-a-stolen-car-cant-consent-to-search-of-defendants-stuff-in-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63627","title":{"rendered":"MT: Owner of a stolen car can&#8217;t consent to search of defendant&#8217;s stuff in it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Defendant stole Dempsey\u2019s car. The trial court decided he had no standing in a stolen car. The supreme court held that Dempsey\u2019s third-party consent to search defendant\u2019s stuff was invalid. <a href=\"https:\/\/juddocumentservice.mt.gov\/getDocByCTrackId?DocId=560888\">State v. Flores-Reyes<\/a>, 2026 MT 56 (Mar. 17, 2026).  [Generally, there&#8217;s a lack of standing in a stolen car. \u00a7 4.15 n.6-11.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pleading a Fourth Amendment claim without facts isn\u2019t sufficient. Alston v. N.Y.C. Dep&#8217;t of Corr., 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 55710 (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 17, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Smell of marijuana and a bong falling out of the glove box was plain view. State v. Sosa-Valdez, 2026 N.C. App. LEXIS 210 (Mar. 18, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a child pornography case, facts about defendant sending money to the Phillippines a year and a half earlier wasn\u2019t stale. Date restrictions in child pornography cases generally aren\u2019t material. United States v. Marshall, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 55794 (N.D. Ga. Jan. 27, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant stole Dempsey\u2019s car. The trial court decided he had no standing in a stolen car. The supreme court held that Dempsey\u2019s third-party consent to search defendant\u2019s stuff was invalid. State v. Flores-Reyes, 2026 MT 56 (Mar. 17, 2026). [Generally, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63627\">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":[24,51,18,8,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consent","category-plain-view","category-reasonable-expectation-of-privacy","category-staleness","category-standing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63627","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=63627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63631,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63627\/revisions\/63631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}