State v. Verhagen

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “the burden of proving that the evidence was seized in an open field, in common with other exceptions to the warrant requirement, rests with the State”
• wife who had recently left marital home had no authority to consent to warrantless search of home
• where pursuant to order entered in connection with divorce proceedings, spouse’s legal right of access to home was for limited purposes only, she had insufficient search consent authority

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).