spiritfild
Junior Member
What is the name of your state? CA
I turned on the radio the other day and landed in the middle of some program that sounded interesting... I was left confused though, since I didn't hear the whole thing. From what I gather, if two people live together, share a house, husband and wife for example, and the police come and want to search, both have to consent to it. If one says yes but one says no, they can't search. Something about shared privacy space or something... is that true? It sort of makes sense.... if they have a warrant to search one person's property, but not the others, how can they distinguish between what is whose? Doesn't the innocent party have a right to privacy? Just wondering what the laws were about that.
Also wondering, after watching some detective show on TV... are there any areas of a house that are off-limits to searchers? Considered private, like drawers or anything?
Oh gosh, the questions just keep coming, I have another. If they do come and search your house, is it normal for them to just strew everything that was packed away neatly all over the room and expect you to clean up after them? Especially if all the stuff belongs to the innocent party that had nothing to do with the reason they're searching in the first place? Can they get in any sort of trouble for causing such a mess? This one I ask because it happened to me... and I came in late that night from the airport to find this mess, and spent hours just trying to clean off a place for me to sleep, and put everything back where it was. I was royally pissed, and wondered if this was standard procedure.
And please, Litigation, or whoever you are, if you're not going to say something nice, don't say anything at all.
I turned on the radio the other day and landed in the middle of some program that sounded interesting... I was left confused though, since I didn't hear the whole thing. From what I gather, if two people live together, share a house, husband and wife for example, and the police come and want to search, both have to consent to it. If one says yes but one says no, they can't search. Something about shared privacy space or something... is that true? It sort of makes sense.... if they have a warrant to search one person's property, but not the others, how can they distinguish between what is whose? Doesn't the innocent party have a right to privacy? Just wondering what the laws were about that.
Also wondering, after watching some detective show on TV... are there any areas of a house that are off-limits to searchers? Considered private, like drawers or anything?
Oh gosh, the questions just keep coming, I have another. If they do come and search your house, is it normal for them to just strew everything that was packed away neatly all over the room and expect you to clean up after them? Especially if all the stuff belongs to the innocent party that had nothing to do with the reason they're searching in the first place? Can they get in any sort of trouble for causing such a mess? This one I ask because it happened to me... and I came in late that night from the airport to find this mess, and spent hours just trying to clean off a place for me to sleep, and put everything back where it was. I was royally pissed, and wondered if this was standard procedure.
And please, Litigation, or whoever you are, if you're not going to say something nice, don't say anything at all.