United States v. Timothy Richards

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that “a person is not precluded from consenting to a warrantless search simply because he or she suffers from a mental disease”
• “[The defendant] had an expectation of privacy in the west bedroom because ... he alone had access to the room if it was locked.”
• homeowner with dementia provided valid consent where there was nothing to put a reasonable officer on 15 notice that homeowner's mental state was so impaired he could not provide voluntary consent to warrantless search

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).