Exam 8: Searches With Consent

A hotel guest is not entitled to protection against unreasonable searches and seizures.

Consent is an exception to the Fourth Amendment rule requiring ________ and ________ in search and seizure cases.

In ________, the Court held that knowledge of the right to refuse consent is not a prerequisite for voluntary consent.

In Illinois v. Rodriguez, the Court held that searches in which the person giving consent has ________ authority are valid.

Consent given after an illegal act by the police is not valid because such consent is tainted.

Which case law establishes that consent for the police to search a vehicle also extends to closed containers found inside the vehicle?

In ________, the Court held that a warrantless search of a shared dwelling over the express refusal of consent by a physically present resident violates the Fourth Amendment.

To be valid, consent must be voluntary and intelligent, based on ________.

The lawful occupant of a house or apartment may consent to a search if the other occupant is not present or was removed on objectively reasonable grounds.

Which of the following types of consent to search are valid, if voluntary and intelligent?

Written consent is constitutionally required.

Consent search given a hotel clerk would be considered valid.

Mere silence or failure to object to a search does not necessarily indicate valid consent.

The scope of an allowable search depends on the type of consent given.

The ________ rule says that consent given by a third party whom the police reasonably believe to possess common authority over the premises is valid even if it is later established that the person did not in fact have that authority.

Consent obtained by deception through a claim of lawful authority, which did not in fact exist, is ________.

________ means the consent was not forced or coerced; ________ means the person giving consent must know what he or she is doing.

Consent to enter a dwelling means consent to search.