Consented Warrantless Search

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1. What qualities must valid consent to a warrantless search have under Sapla?
2. Does failure to object by itself necessarily amount to permission to search?
3. What is the effect of a coercive environment on alleged consent?
4. Surrounded by armed officers, a passenger hesitates and then opens a sack only after their demand. Does the act alone c…
5. The prosecution relies only on the officer’s statement that the person did not resist. Is that necessarily enough to pr…
6. Officers lack a warrant and any independent exception. They claim a resident consented because he silently stood aside …
7. A court says a citizen must physically resist police to avoid consenting, while the prosecution says any later discover…
8. Distinguish consent from passive conformity.
9. Why does opening a bag not invariably establish a valid search waiver?
10. Explain the danger of equating lack of resistance with consent.
11. Under Damaso, may any person encountered at a dwelling automatically waive the absent occupant’s protection against unr…
12. Whose authority to permit the search was missing in Damaso?