United States v. Kenneth D. Hendrix

How courts have described this case

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• upholding the validity of a warrantless search where the defendant was present and did not consent, but his wife did consent, because the rule developed in Mat-lock did not depend on the defendant’s absence
• wife gave police consent to search apartment shared with husband and remained at sister's apartment away from her residence when the search occurred
• wife gave police consent to search apartment shared with husband and remained at sister's apartment away from her residence when the search occurred
• wife’s consent prevailed over objection of husband who was arrested when he came out of apartment
• wife’s consent to search house valid despite defendant-husband’s objection to the search
• threat to human life from a sawed-off shotgun

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).