Petition of the day

The petition of the day is:

Payne v. West Virginia
16-1141

Issue: Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits a warrantless search of a guest’s container found inside a home or vehicle searched by officers relying on consent given by the home- or vehicle- owner, who lacked actual authority to consent to the search of the container.

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