Giving a co-conspirator a key to the building because he regularly used it and the password to turn off the burglar alarm was sufficient to give him apparent authority to consent to a search. United States v. Wright, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 100676 (E.D. N.Y. July 19, 2012):<\/p>\n
Here, in the testimony at the hearing, the Government proved that Spears was a co-conspirator with Wright with regard to the possession and distribution of drugs; that Wright gave Spears a key to the subject apartment in Mineola; that Spears used the key to enter the apartment on a number of times prior to May 17, 2008; that Spears knew the password to turn off the alarm in the apartment; that Spears was present in the apartment when the alarm was installed, when Wright told the installer that “the other black male could know the password to the alarm;” and that prior to May 17, 2008, Spears had stayed and slept in the apartment on a number of occasions, sometimes without Wright being present.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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