United States First Circuit

Denial of defendant's motion to suppress child pornography seized at his residence is affirmed where a live-in landlord had the authority to consent to a search of common areas, a fellow tenant's consent to search was freely and voluntarily given, and consent was sufficient to overcome the warrant requirement.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/29/2003
• Published 10/29/2003

Judges

• SILER, Senior Circuit Judge., Before BOUDIN, Circuit Judge, SILER, Senior Circuit Judge, and LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas P. Colantuono, United States Attorney, with whom Helen White Fitzgibbon and Donald Feith, Assistant United States Attorneys, were on brief for appellee., William T. Boyle was on brief for defendant, appellant.