State v. Carsey

How courts have described this case

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• grandparent had no authority to permit search where adult grandchild enjoyed a scrupulously observed privacy interest in rented room at grandparents' home
• joint occupants assume the risk that one occupant might permit common area to be searched
• consent search invalid where the defendant had not assumed the risk that his grandmother would consent to the search of his room
• in determining validity of consent, relationship between grandmother and grandson treated as that of parent and child
• “A par- ent has manifold duties toward his or her minor children, duties which give rise to correlative rights of control over the child.”
• “The good faith of the searching officers * * * is irrelevant.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).