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State v. Holmes

Citations

  • 108 Wash. App. 511

How courts have described this case

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  • requiring officers to inquire further when it was unclear that a person giving consent to search had authority to do so
  • because the person who claimed to be a coinhabitant did not have a key, police officers should have doubted her authority to consent, despite her explicit assurance that she lived there
  • Ferrier warnings required where police went to defendant’s apartment without a warrant, intending to search for contraband
  • Ferrier warnings required where police went to defendant's apartment without a warrant, intending to search for contraband
  • “whether officers reasonably believe in third person’s authority to consent [to search] is judged against an objective standard”
  • because the person who claimed to be a coinhabitant did not have a key, police officers should have doubted her authority to consent, despite her explicit assur- anee that she lived there

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Judges: Ellington

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