CAN MY GIRLFRIEND OR BOYFRIEND GIVE THE POLICE AUTHORITY TO SEARCH MY PRIVATE BELONGINGS WITHOUT A SEARCH WARRANT?
In this blog, part two in a series about consent given to the police to search another person’s belongings, we look at an April 2018 Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts case in which a defendant’s live-in girlfriend gave the police permission to search the couple’s shared apartment. The case was resolved in favor of the…