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Don't want your ex to consent to a police entry of your place? Change the locks.

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

Defendant's stop was for a traffic offense and his questioning was based on the officer smelling marijuana. Macias v. State, 2008 Ga. App. LEXIS 746 (June 25, 2008).* Police reasonably believed that defendant's former live-in girlfriend had authority to consent to a search of the property. Although she had moved out six weeks earlier, she was on the lease, she had a key, and she obviously could come and go. State v. Shaffer, 2008 Ohio 3116, 2008 Ohio App. LEXIS 2633 (5th Dist. June 19, 2008).* Comment: Obvious moral to the story: Change the locks, fool!

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on June 28, 2008 (boomark / email).