{"id":6449,"date":"2013-06-23T09:09:42","date_gmt":"2011-12-24T00:04:20","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T12:15:37","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6449","title":{"rendered":"WI: Giving full access to a computer gives apparent authority to consent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant invited his girlfriend to spend the weekend at a relative\u2019s house while the relative was gone for the weekend. He told her she could use his computer. While on the computer, she found child pornography, and she called the police. Because she had been given full access to the computer, she had apparent authority to consent to a look at the computer by the police who later obtained a search warrant. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wicourts.gov\/ca\/opinion\/DisplayDocument.pdf?content=pdf&amp;seqNo=75497\">State v. Sobczak<\/a>, 2012 WI App 6, 338 Wis. 2d 410, 808 N.W.2d 730 (2011), affd <a href=\"http:\/\/wicourts.gov\/sc\/opinion\/DisplayDocument.pdf?content=pdf&amp;seqNo=98355\">State v. Sobczak<\/a>, 2013 WI 52, 2013 Wisc. LEXIS 264 (June 20, 2013), posted <a href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/blog\/index.php?blog=1&amp;title=wi_person_loaned_laptop_had_apparent_aut&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There was probable cause for arrest of the plaintiff university professor for disorderly conduct and stalking, so his false arrest claims fail. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca1.uscourts.gov\/cgi-bin\/getopn.pl?OPINION=10-2316P.01A\">Collins v. Univ. of N.H.<\/a>, 664 F.3d 8 (1st Cir. 2011).*<\/p>\n<p>The court credits the officers\u2019 version that they got defendant out of the car during a traffic stop and his gun fell during a scuffle with the officers. Defendant says that it came from an unreasonable search of the car, which the court finds did not happen. United States v. Jones, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 146519 (E.D. Pa. December 20, 2011).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6449\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6449","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}