State v. Folkens

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a fourteen-year-old had common authority over the home to allow a search in her own right
• holding that a 14-year old rape victim could consent to a police search of her home
• holding that a 14 year-old who had a key to the house and was expected to do the household shopping, cooking, and laundry had authority to consent to the search of the bedroom she had been using for the past several weeks
• no corroborating evidence to support the victim’s testimony that she had been sexually abused on prior occasions
• “The minority of the consenting party does not in itself vitiate the consent, but does bear on the voluntariness of it.”
• minor’s consent to search of parent’s bedroom was valid when minor had been sleeping in the bedroom

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).