United States v. Kendall Isom

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• observing appellant’s “rather considerable prior experience with law enforcement officers” in upholding the trial court’s ruling that he understood his rights
• finding no violation of defendant’s Fourth Amendment rights because owner of home where defendant had been staying intermittently consented to search
• finding of waiver not clearly erroneous when “appellant expressed his understanding of his rights as they were read to him, signed the waiver of rights form, and had had rather considerable prior experience with law enforcement officers”
• tenant could consent to search of apartment, even though guest was present, but was not authorized to consent to search of guest’s locked box
• defendant present at search but neither asserted ownership nor objected to search
• “[E]ven if appellant had some right, doubtful at best, as a ‘licensee’ to countermand [the homeowner’s] consent to the search, [the homeowner] had undoubtedly revoked the ‘license’ by asking appellant to leave her apartment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).