United States v. Mesa Rith

How courts have described this case

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• holding the defendant “was not in police custody until the point at which he was confronted with the illegal shotgun” seized during a search of his home
• indicating that a lock on a door to a defendant’s room would rebut a presumption that a third-party had control for most purposes over the room
• stating that the presumption may be rebutted by, for example, “a lock on the bedroom door or an agreement, explicit or implicit, that the third party never enter a particular area.”
• holding the suspect was in custody once “he was confronted with the illegal shotgun”
• applying presumption and holding that the defendant’s parents had actual authority to consent to a search of their 18-year-old son’s bedroom
• \Relationships which give rise to a presumption of control of property include parent-child relationships....\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).