PLIR 3050 : Notes Part 3

• School: University of Virginia
• Department: Politics-International Relations
• Course: PLIR 3050
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Scope of consent: consent merely to enter, a person"s consent to an officer"s request to enter his or her home does not automatically give officer a right to search (1) there is a vital distinction between granting admission to one"s home for the purposes of conversation and granting permission to thoroughly search the home, initial consent vs. Subsequent consent: even if police are granted consent to conduct a search after being granted consent to enter a residence, such consent is limited to search on that particular occasion, area of search, the scope of a consent search depends on what the typical reasonable person would have understood by the exchange between the officer and the suspect (1) if an officer asks for and obtains consent to search a specific area, whether in a place or on a person, the officer is limited to that specific area.