preview

Husbands And Wives Do Not Always Agree Essay

Decent Essays

Husbands and wives do not always agree. This was no exception to Scott and Janet Randolph. On July 6, 2001 Janet Randolph called the police to report a domestic disturbance. She asked them to come to her home in Americus, Georgia. She had shared a home with Scott and their son. They had at one point in their relationship separated but she had moved back into the home two days earlier, with the consent of her husband Scott. When the police arrived to the house, Janet was the only person in the house. She told officers that she and Scott had gotten into an argument and that he had left with their son. An important fact in this case was that she had told the police that her husband had been using cocaine. Janet told the police that there was evidence in the house to prove that Scott had been using cocaine. She gave the police consent to search the home. Moments later Scott returned home. Scott told the police that the reason he had taken their son from the house and away from his wife was due to her abusing drugs and alcohol. He denied that he was the one that was using drugs. The officers had asked for consent to search the house and received it from the wife but not from the husband. Even though Scott had not consented to the search of their home, Janet led the police officers into the bedroom where they found evidence of cocaine. Janet later on changed her mind about giving consent to the officers and retracted her consent for them to search their home. However, it was too

Get Access