United States v. Maurice Whitfield, Jr.

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• holding that FBI agents did not have enough information to justify warrantless search of coats belonging to the defendant that were stored in the defendant’s room in his mother’s home
• holding that agents could not have reasonably believed third party had authority to consent to search because “[t]he agents simply did not have enough information to make that judgment”
• holding that agents could not have reasonably believed third party had authority to consent to search because \[t]he agents simply did not have enough information to make that judgment\
• holding that FBI agents did not have enough information to justify warrantless search of coats belonging to the defendant that were stored in the defendant's room in his mother's home
• holding that a mother's consent to search her son's bedroom did not support a reasonable belief that she had common authority because the government made insufficient inquiry to prove that the defendant's mother ever used the bedroom even if she had access
• holding that a mother's consent to search her son's bedroom did not support a reasonable belief that she had common authority because the government made insufficient inquiry to prove that the defendant's mother ever used the bedroom even if she had access

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).