United States v. Raymond Aghedo

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• holding that an apartment owner who entered the defendant’s room to clean and store personal items had actual authority to consent to search the room, because her “access and control of the room in question” gave the defendant a reduced expectation of privacy
• co-occupant’s access and control of room gives defendant reduced expectation of privacy in premises or shared items
• two roommates in an apartment might not have authority to consent to a search of the other’s room
• conclusion that third party had actual authority to consent eliminated need to consider whether apparent authority also existed
• third party’s signing a “general consent to search” authorized investigators to search under a mattress
• storage of clothing can be relevant to the question of actual authority

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).